Topic: Amazon cracking down on best-seller listing
Interesting article.
https://www.amarketingexpert.com/kdp-am … ller-news/
- Ann Everett
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- Randall Krzak
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Very interesting. Many thanks for posting, Ann.
- Janet Taylor-Perry
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Honestly, I think it's a good thing. I've seen the "bestseller" thing so often that I've decided it's just a tag that means nothing. I've asked myself many times, "How did it get to be a bestseller?" Especially, when it's someone I've never heard of and I go and read a snippet and decided it's tripe and I wouldn't read it anyway.
- rhiannon
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'Best seller,' the way the New York Times uses it means (a) at least 100,000 sold (b) politically correct or at least not incorrect. (b) trumps (a), as the only book that met their stated criterion--(a)--which wasn't included on their list was The Turner Diaries. (I, of course, had to read that because of that attempt at censorship. My advice--don't.)
- jack the knife
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My novel Skeleton Run made it to #2 on the Amazon rankings for the genre. The criterion used to be a ranking in the top 100 on Amazon qualified one to claim Amazon Bestseller. If that's changed, I'm unaware of it. Although the number of books sold pales in comparison to that required to be a NYT or a USA Today bestseller, it is a venue where indie/ small-press authors can attain such ranking by selling a few thousand books. Anyway, I've put "An Amazon bestseller" before the summary of the book on my Amazon author page. As of yet I have not received an e-mail from Amazon questioning this.
- Ann Everett
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I think they are only having problems with it being on the cover. On the back covers of my
Tizzy/Ridge trilogy, I have NYT best selling author (that's New York, Texas, Population 26)
A little tongue and cheek to the Best Seller List. To make the NYT list, you have to sell about 9,000 books in ONE week and the week runs from Monday to Monday, I think.
I have a book that Amazon put a best seller flag next to and it stayed that way for about 6-8 months. I never checked ranking, nor do I put best seller on any of my covers...except the NYT joke. Thank heavens. I'd hate to have to re-do covers!!
- denisef
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Interesting article Ann, thanks for posting.
- Janet Taylor-Perry
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Well, Lucky Thirteen made it to #9 on Amazon among books with a supernatural theme & Heartless made it to #70. So, I guess I could honestly say Amazon bestseller the way John states it. 
- SolN
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A follow up to this conversation. I don't agree with his views on self-publishing but his experiment was interesting.
- Janet Taylor-Perry
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The Hattiesburg-American is part of the USA Today network. I wonder if this counts as "bestseller" status.
- Janet Taylor-Perry
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SolN wrote:
A follow up to this conversation. I don't agree with his views on self-publishing but his experiment was interesting.
Interesting. I don't agree with ALL he said about indie authors (friendlier than self-published), but I've wondered how the devil books got "bestseller" status myself, especially after reading some tripe with that tag.
