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When Amazon Sales Rank Is Lying: Revealing Hidden Demand In Obscure Books

By Peter Valley 6 Comments

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A quick lesson why there’s more to a book’s demand than Amazon sales rank.

Here’s are some questions we’re going to answer:

  • When is Amazon sales rank lying to you?
  • When is Amazon sales rank not a measure of a book’s demand?
  • When is there actually more demand that a bad Amazon sales rank indicates?

We are going to talk about how to profit from “reading between the lines” of Amazon sales rank – and reveal books that might actually be higher demand than sales rank indicates….

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How I Built TruRank: The Simpler (And Cheaper) Keepa Alternative

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The story behind the new Keepa-alternative TruRank: Cheaper, simpler, and easier historical Amazon sales rank tool.

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New Keepa Changes: How To See Amazon Sales Rank Data They Now Charge For

By Peter Valley 21 Comments

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Keepa starts charging for sales rank graphs: Here’s how to see them for free.

In this article:

After CamelCamcelCamel meltdown, Keepa puts sales rank charts behind a paywall.
Why seller panic is vastly overblown.
How you can still see Keepa sales rank graphs: Free

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The (almost) definitive guide to Amazon sales rank for DVDs and VHS

By Peter Valley 21 Comments

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What I learned analyzing dozens of DVDs and VHS, on a mission to reverse-engineer sales rank for videos.

  • An overview of sales rank for Amazon’s video category.
  • The top 10 things to know about sales rank for DVDs and VHS

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My magic formula for identifying poorly-ranked books that actually sell on Amazon

By Peter Valley 3 Comments

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How to separate the obsolete books from ones that will actually sell on Amazon. Readers of this site know I am a proponent of two closely linked things: The theory that “almost everything sells on Amazon, eventually.” Not being intimidated by Amazon sales rank’s in the 1 million+ range. Being misunderstood (what else is new) […]

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Inside the mind of a madman: Why I spent $60 on books ranked 8 million

By Peter Valley 5 Comments

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How I knew 10 books with terrible Sales Rank’s would still sell. (Get past the boring title and subject matter and there’s a valuable lesson here, so take this bitter pill. You may even enjoy it.) I took a road trip to Iowa recently, and on the return trip I made a few book stops. […]

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Cracking the Code on Amazon Sales Rank

By Peter Valley 12 Comments

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Sales Rank is among the most misunderstood yet important elements of selling on Amazon. You scan a book. It’s ranked 700,000. How much information can you learn from this number? You can extract more meaning from it than you think… (This post is a condensed adaptation of the Sales Rank module in my extensive video […]

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A lesson in Amazon sales rank: The story of a book ranked 6 million

By Peter Valley 2 Comments

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I track the sales rank of a book after a single sale, and am floored by the results. I’ve mentioned before that one of my side businesses is publishing. I have about 10 titles in print, most of which are very “long tail” books that sell steadily but slowly. Cumulatively, they bring me in decent […]

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The Library Trash Experiment: A lesson in selling obscure books on Amazon

By Peter Valley 9 Comments

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I ship over 100 poorly ranked books to Amazon. Six months later, here are the sales results. In June, I did a post on pulling over 100 books from the university library dumpster. The library was (and still is) in the midst of a massive book purge (to make way for more computers), and I […]

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My guest post about sales rank on “FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) Step by Step”

By Peter Valley 1 Comment

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Cynthia Stine does a fantastic website on Fulfillment by Amazon called FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) Step By Step that succeeds where this one fails: Providing in-depth, long-form content that really gets deep into a subject. For a great example of her content, read this recent post on how to work a library book sale. I’m […]

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