Comments on: Good news/Bad news http://alexbeecroft.com/2009/04/good-newsbad-news/ Sailing paper boats down the rivers of Elfland Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:52:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lee Rowan http://alexbeecroft.com/2009/04/good-newsbad-news/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Lee Rowan Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:11:50 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/good-newsbad-news/#comment-217 That line about saving for a Kindle? Tell that to Amazon. >8-D That line about saving for a Kindle?

Tell that to Amazon.

>8-D

]]> By: HH http://alexbeecroft.com/2009/04/good-newsbad-news/comment-page-1/#comment-216 HH Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:05:40 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/good-newsbad-news/#comment-216 Yes. I've been hoping the amazon sales rank thing is a computer glitch too, but it's hard not to suspect it's something more sinister. They've been gone for 4 or 5 days, from both the UK and US sites: I haven't checked other countries. I've been in the habit of following my partner's book "Dances with Werewolves" (it's an erotic memoir, not a horror novel), and it's been fun to compare its ups and downs with everything else that's out there. Sales ranks feed into all sorts of other lists and ranks, and so they drive one of the main mechanisms by which people can find out about good books in subjects that the big bookstores don't stock and promote. Yes. I’ve been hoping the amazon sales rank thing is a computer glitch too, but it’s hard not to suspect it’s something more sinister. They’ve been gone for 4 or 5 days, from both the UK and US sites: I haven’t checked other countries.

I’ve been in the habit of following my partner’s book “Dances with Werewolves” (it’s an erotic memoir, not a horror novel), and it’s been fun to compare its ups and downs with everything else that’s out there.

Sales ranks feed into all sorts of other lists and ranks, and so they drive one of the main mechanisms by which people can find out about good books in subjects that the big bookstores don’t stock and promote.

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