• MagicShel@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    ranking 9,735 among its best-selling books as of Monday, November 27

    I watched a TikTok over the weekend by an author who was ranked 87th (83rd? Somewhere in the 80’s) on Amazon bestsellers and she dished that the number of books including pre-orders that she sold her first week to attain that rank: 650 copies.

    Now maybe this is the rank on the annual or overall bestselling list where you would expect a recent release to rank poorly (in which case, awful journalism to pick a meaningless stat to manipulate the message - I don’t care if we do happen to align politically, don’t do that shit), but if that is the weekly list, those 8 reviews she got might be the total number of sales.