Does the Author Central "Ranked Over Time" chart provide any meaningful information at all, especially in relation to actual sales?
Amazon Ranking by Time
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Not particularly, IMO. It can be useful to spot overall trends related to promotions.
There are a bunch of attempts out there to translate rankings into sales numbers; here's one example. It seems to be skewed a bit high for sales, based on my own numbers, but it may give you an approximate idea of what to expect.
There are a bunch of attempts out there to translate rankings into sales numbers; here's one example. It seems to be skewed a bit high for sales, based on my own numbers, but it may give you an approximate idea of what to expect.
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In short - No.
Amazons sales rank is a wonderful, unusual mystery that is understood by so few. To the rest of us it doesn't really mean much as it's not possible to accurately use it in terms of sales etc.