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Amazon Sales Rank - Sales Ranks For Amazon Self Publishing and Trade Books. Calculate How Many Books Amazon Sells from Ranks Subscribe to my publishing blog by Email Note: This analysis is in no way sponsored or approved by Amazon.com. I have another article for Amazon book sales compared to Barnes&Noble and Borders. And a quick note for those authors whose sales ranks don't appear to agree with their reported sales. You have to keep in mind that Amazon sales rank included sales of both new and used books from Marketplace sellers, who ship more than one in three items sold by through Amazon.

I've added a new section about the new Amazon Author ranks lower on the page. The following graph is based on January, February and March data from last year, I'll update it when the ranking system settles out again, but the situation hasn't changed much because paper book sales are steady if not declining. The very top ranks graph is a rough estimate from a couple summers ago when Amazon was displaying stocking data for books on the product pages. Amazon Author Ranks. Sales Rank Express (Amazon Sales Rank, Sales Ranking, Classement Parmi les Ventes, Verkaufsrang, ランキング, Sales Rank Tool, Checker, Watcher, Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.jp)

Self Publishing 2.0: Creating an Author Website in Nvu Video Tutorial. An author e-mailed me last week asking if I could recommend web design software for him to use, and when I answered with my usual "Whatever you're comfortable with," he wrote back suggesting the free Nvu web editor. It seems to me that I tried Nvu some years back and lost interest in a couple minutes, but that's mainly because I have a system that works for me and I don't get excited about software. Today, thanks to YouTube, I decided it's about time I stop preaching the theory of web design and give reluctant authors a quick five video tutorial to get them off the ground running. I started with a logo: The next step is to open the free Nvu web editor and start laying out a basic design.

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