Once upon a recent time, in a thread not too far away, a mythical figure accused us of producing mythical figures with regard to our sales.
"Perhaps you would like to address the difference of the Novelrank figures - generally accepted as being 95% accurate and upto date - with your assertion you are selling thousands of copies per week.
They say;
Amazon.com
Feb 198
March 167
Amazon.co.uk
Feb 444
March 299
And no, I longer feel mean. I believe you are at best a pretentious manipulator of the truth and worst a cynical shiller. Nothing you have posted convinces me otherwise, in fact quite the opposite."When we offered to email the actual Amazon sales record figures there was no response.
And after Pam kindly confirmed on site that our figures were indeed accurate, a deafening silence.
So what went wrong with novelrank? I contacted them and posed that question directly.
This is the official position from novelrank's creator Mario Lurig.
NovelRank makes it very clear that they are sales estimates, and the FAQ states that they are dramatically underestimated for books that sell more than 100 copies a month.
NovelRank watches SALES RANK fluctuations, and thus at very good rankings, it is very hard to determine a sale (it’s a very big guess to say how many books must be sold in an hour to maintain say a rank of 100).
I’m sorry that people don’t read, and I’ll see if there is anything else I can do to make it clearer when this threshold is passed.For the record, the exchange is also recorded in the comments thread on the novelrank blog (http://www.novelrank.com/blog/) on the March 17 posting.
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