On amazon.com, is there a way to see what are their top-selling (and bottom-selling) titles in each category?
Thanks.
Bestsellers:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_dp_ts_b_1
Couldn’t find worst sellers.
That would be because there are too many of them. Do you really want a list of the tens of thousands of books that only sold one copy last week? Or the hundreds of thousands that sold zero copies?
No thank you.
Because Amazon facilitates the sale of used books, they have listing for books that have been out of print for 50 years. (I know this because I listed one for sale last night). As a collector, I’d love to be able to search for books by publication date. They used to have an advanced search that let you search by publisher, etc., but that feature seems to have disappeared.
I’d also love to be able to search for used books by price, ie, show me all baseball books listed for $0.01, or all books from <1950 for less than $1.00.
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Search-Books/b/ref=sv_b_0?ie=UTF8&node=241582011
You can’t search by price, but you can sort on it.
The count of books [counted by edition, not printing or title] that HAVE sold at least once is above 8 million.
The last time Amazon disclosed the number, some years back, there were twice as many books without sales ranks as with, which at the time means there were 12 million books without ranks.
I’d hazard a guess that the catalog has been as large as 20 million titles, although they did some bulk non-ISBN-book catalog mergers last year.
Want to know what the sales ranks mean?
Here’s a chart from 3 years back:
…
Rank Last sold about
200,000 2 days ago
660,000 7 days ago
1,020,000 14 days ago
1,606,000 1 month ago
2,700,000 2 months ago
3,014,000 3 months ago
3,950,000 1 year ago
…
As the catalog has gotten bigger, I’d multiple the numbers on the left side by 120% to compensate for time.
Cite: Amazon poster lumahai at أمازون , post made Mar 10, 2007 2:23 PM
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FTR, I’ve seen catalog pages dating back to 1898.
PS- The book in question, which I wanted to sell online, is only worth about $2 on Amazon. Old don’t mean valuable.
True.
And there are books on Amazon that date back to the 16th century… although very often books older than 1900 are either a) a typo, or b) the bookseller confusing the date when the original version was published and when their copy was.