As if we didn’t have enough things to make us crazy,
Amazon has come up with a new one—Amazon Author Rank. This is different from
the “sales” rank for individual books on individual platforms. The new ranking
compiles all your books sold on Amazon—Kindle, hardcopy and multiple titles
combined.
You can access this new ranking on your Author Central
Page. A new tab, “Rank” appears right next to the old “Sales Info” tab. Click
on that and you’ll see how you rank from Amazon’s perspective. As with anything
Amazon, it changes hourly and with sweeping changes.
For the public, you can now see the top 100 Authors on
Amazon and the selected genres. So, if you’re not in the top 100, better head
over to your Author Central Page to see where you land.
The email from Amazon that I received on Wednesday
started out like this …
Dear Jim Devitt ,
Today we have added a new feature, Amazon Author Rank,
the definitive list of best-selling authors on Amazon.com. This list makes it easy for readers to discover the best-selling authors on Amazon.com overall and within a selection of major genres …
the definitive list of best-selling authors on Amazon.com. This list makes it easy for readers to discover the best-selling authors on Amazon.com overall and within a selection of major genres …
Then it went on to inform me that my rank in the TEENS category was #4269. I looked today
(at the time of writing this post) and my rank in the TEENS category moved up
to #1828 so I guess a bunch of teen writers stopped selling books so that my
ranking could improve.
So, as with anything in the book selling world, this
is just one more time waster to worry about—UNLESS, you are in the top 100 and
the public actually see’s your name. Category rankings are much more powerful
and visible; I’ve previously written how to improve that here.
My advice? Don’t go too crazy worrying about this. It
can get depressing. This is in Beta testing currently, and if Amazon decides to
add it to the sales page, it may give readers another option to analyze before
buying. But, for now, you are the only one that can see your numbers so I
suppose that there is not much effect.
Now run along and look up your author rank so that you
can get depressed with the other 499,900 authors that are not in the top 100 on
Amazon.
A version of this post originally appeared in Indies Unlimited on Saturday October 13th
A version of this post originally appeared in Indies Unlimited on Saturday October 13th
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