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Ebook pricing & ratings fixes
The Shatzkin files has a post about Data helps us understand ebook pricing impacts, with lots of chewy thoughts about how pricing & popularity get tangled together; Shatkzin's opinion is that $.99 books and $19.99 books shouldn't be listed together because they're aimed at such different markets there's no point. "Comparing apples to broccoli," he calls it.
And he posts a link to Dan Lubart's blog which has a nifty factoid worth noticing. His ebook had reached #1 on the charts for its sub-category at Barnes & Noble--and then the next day, it was at #127. This was unheard-of. B&N doesn't have Amazon's activity numbers that can reorganize the whole chart in a matter of hours, and their numbers just aren't that responsive to user activity. (Amazon's rankings go up by page counts & sample downloads. Dunno about B&N.) Anyway, after some digging, he noticed a trend:
So far, this is speculation; there's no proof, just the flat numbers that currently, the top 125 ebooks at B&N all cost at least $3--one day after one of them held the top spot.
And he posts a link to Dan Lubart's blog which has a nifty factoid worth noticing. His ebook had reached #1 on the charts for its sub-category at Barnes & Noble--and then the next day, it was at #127. This was unheard-of. B&N doesn't have Amazon's activity numbers that can reorganize the whole chart in a matter of hours, and their numbers just aren't that responsive to user activity. (Amazon's rankings go up by page counts & sample downloads. Dunno about B&N.) Anyway, after some digging, he noticed a trend:
# of titles below $3 - ranks 1 - 125: 0Barnes & Noble seems to have declared that ebooks that cost less than $3 can't be in the top 125, no matter how well-loved they are. Those ranks are reserved for more expensive books.
# of titles below $3 - ranks 126 - 200: 65
So far, this is speculation; there's no proof, just the flat numbers that currently, the top 125 ebooks at B&N all cost at least $3--one day after one of them held the top spot.