{"id":269,"date":"2011-01-11T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T21:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-01-11T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T21:35:04","slug":"cool-stuff-amazon-sales-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/cool-stuff-amazon-sales-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Stuff: Amazon Sales Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month or two back, Amazon began sharing BookScan information with authors. I can now see&#160; how many copies of How We Test Software at Microsoft are selling (US only, and Nielsen BookScan only tracks the large-ish book sellers) \u2013 but it\u2019s still sort of cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: ; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"530\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but wonder who in Houston bought a copy, or why 4 copies sold in Washington D.C. last month.<\/p>\n<p>I can also track ranking (only as far back as October 2009, I\u2019m not as interested in sales ranking (the book seems to bounce quite a bit, but it\u2019s still interesting to look at history. Sales rank from October 2009 to now looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: ; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"518\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sales have been steadier than the sales ranks, and as such I expect that Amazon sales rankings are not based entirely on actual sales (links, page views, etc. all contribute (I think) to amazon rating).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway \u2013 not sure what to make of it, but I\u2019m pleasantly surprised to see that the book is still selling steadily. I think if we sell about a bajillion more copies, I can justify a second edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month or two back, Amazon began sharing BookScan information with authors. I can now see&#160; how many copies of How We Test Software at Microsoft are selling (US only, and Nielsen BookScan only tracks the large-ish book sellers) \u2013 but it\u2019s still sort of cool. I can\u2019t help but wonder who in Houston bought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}