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Does anyone know how this exactly works?

Earlier today, my book The Hockey Farmer was ranked at around 27, 000 and now it is at 580. What exactly does this reveal and how accurate is it?

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fdevji said:
Does anyone know how this exactly works?

Earlier today, my book The Hockey Farmer was ranked at around 27, 000 and now it is at 580. What exactly does this reveal and how accurate is it?

Thanks in advance.
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The ranks are listed by a host of criteria including category, genre, sub-genre, etc., and are updated to reflect sales in a given 2 hour period. Depending on the activity in a given category, the sale of one or two books can move you a half-million spots on the rankings, or only a couple of positions.

Those hourly Amazon ranking updates by genre aren't a great barometer of sales. Now, if you were to land on the Top Sellers list in the overall "Books" category, that's a different story.
 
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What Chumplet said. ;)
 

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Liam Jackson said:
The ranks are listed by a host of criteria including category, genre, sub-genre, etc., and are updated to reflect sales in a given 2 hour period. Depending on the activity in a given category, the sale of one or two books can move you a half-million spots on the rankings, or only a couple of positions.

Those hourly Amazon ranking updates by genre aren't a great barometer of sales. Now, if you were to land on the Top Sellers list in the overall "Books" category, that's a different story.
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I'm not sure this is entirely correct, actually. Amazon.com does the breakdown by genre, etc, but I don't think .ca does. Given that the book is currently 3404 on the general list, I think it hit 580 on that list. Which is a very cool thing indeed.

(I debated having my Amazon.ca sales ranking #2 screenshot printed as a t-shirt, but I figured that was probably too much... I did print it out, though...)
 

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Thanks for the help everyone. Hopefully The Hockey Farmer gets back atop the rankings sooner rather than later!
 
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