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I was just listening to a podcast that included Steve Rinella lamenting that his recent wild game cookbook didn't make the NYT Best Seller list despite selling
by floren 6y ago
I was just listening to a podcast that included Steve Rinella lamenting that his recent wild game cookbook didn't make the NYT Best Seller list despite selling out on Amazon... If I remember correctly, it was precisely because of pre-orders. Thus, as he prepares to release his latest book, he's asking fans to buy the book, but to try and mix it up from just Amazon pre-ordering: pre-order at independent bookstores, order on release day, etc.
- netcan 6y agoSEO everywhere. This is all getting to be too much.
- interestica 6y agoSeriously. I swear people are using it for baby name choice. Though I wonder if some version of optimization was done in the past? At the top of the attendance list, I always got called on first....
- ashtonkem 6y agoMike Duncan said that the minimum preorder volume to get on the NYT best seller’s list is somewhere near 5,000.
- ALittleLight 6y agoAmazon could easily improve their rankings by changing it from "most purchased" to "pages read" or a similar metric. "Time users spent reading per dollar cost" would be a good measure. You could add something in to get a novelty factor if you wanted. This would solve the pre-order problem as books wouldn't rank until people started reading them. It would also weed out books that people buy but don't actually read.