| The simple answer is that it means
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| | to pass, but if the sales rank were
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| different things to different people, but
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| | 45,017, it might suddenly be a book worth
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| I will elaborate.If you are a customer
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| | adding to their inventory.In scouting for
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| and you are browsing the "Product
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| | books, I do look at the sales rank for
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| Details" of a specific book, you could
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| | higher priced books because I do not want
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| interpret the sales rank to be a measure
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| | to stack a lot of firewood on my shelves,
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| of the popularity of that book. The lower
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| | but it is certainly not the measure I use
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| the sales rank number, the more popular
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| | for most book purchases. The scientist in
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| the book as determined by the number of
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| | me
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| recent sales of that title through the
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| | wanted to know more, so I compiled the
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| marketplace. This is true in general, but
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| | sales rank data for thousands of the
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| if you really want to know about the
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| | books I have sold, using sales rank at
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| popularity of a specific title, you also
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| | both at the time I purchased them and at
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| need to
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| | the time I sold them respectively. Being
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| consider the publication date and how
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| | an engineer, I had to collect and torture
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| long it has been marketed on For
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| | the data to see if there was any
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| example, a book with an sales rank of
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| | correlation between
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| 100,000 that has only been released and
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| | the sales rank and the time it takes to
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| marketed on for a few days may be very
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| | sell a book. Indeed there is, at least in
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| popular in the near future and reach the
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| | my experience, and doing a curve fit to
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| top ten. That it is only ranked 100,000
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| | the data yielded a correlation
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| right now is a little deceptive because
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| | coefficient of 0.93. The wellness of fit
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| the timeframe over which this rank was
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| | of the data is particularly apparent in a
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| determined is not really long enough to
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| | semi-logarithmic plot.So, you see, there
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| measure the true popularity.To a
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| | is a meaning to the sales rank.For the
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| bookseller, the sales rank is quite often
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| | book buyer it is a measure of a book's
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| correlated to how quickly a particular
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| | popularity.For the bookseller, it is a
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| title might sell. A book with a very low
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| | measure of how quickly a book might sell
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| number sales rank might be expected to
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| | and or whether or not the book might just
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| sell within minutes or hours of listing,
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| | be firewood.For the engineer, it is just
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| and a book with a sales rank of 4,000,000
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| | a bunch more data that can be tortured
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| might take several years to sell. The
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| | into a confession of sorts.For more
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| analogy is frequently used by booksellers
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| | information about the sales rank, please
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| when they are scouting for books to add
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| | visit: E. Mould is the author of "Online
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| to their inventory. If a bookseller finds
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| | Bookselling: A Practical Guide with
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| a book that has an online value of $10,
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| | Detailed Explanations and Insightful
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| an sales rank of 2,105,878, and he/she is
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| | Tips," (ISBN 1599714876) published
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| faced with buying it for $4, they are apt
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| | February 2006.
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