My first thought was, Holy Library of Alexandria, Amazon has over 6 million books in its database? Then I realized it has to be even more than that, because if Amazon has never sold a particular book it has no number ranking at all.
Wow. That’s a lot of books.
But how low can we go? What’s the book with the lowest rank (i.e. highest number) on Amazon?
All right, let’s see who can find the lowest. And bonus points if you’re the last poster before a mod sends this thread off to the Game Room!
I’m sorry to say that the lowest I found was in the 3 million range. Of course, that’s not including that arresting work,The 2003 Import and Export Market for Knitted and Crocheted Under Garments in Togo, which, sadly, hasn’t been reviewed yet.
If you take the search referenced above (ie, a blank search in books) and then reverse the bestselling sort (which I did by adding a minus sign in front of the sort keyword - based on how Amazon reverses the price sort), this is the first book listed - theoretically the lowest ranked book:
However, it has no sales rank listed and it appears that the list is really sorted quasi-alphabetically in some bizarre fashion. Paging through the list (by manually changing the link, clicking the little page numbers takes you back to a straight bestseller descending sort interestingly enough), I find that some books have a rank, but others don’t and the ranks are random-ish.
I’ve read about that guy. He basically has computer programs that assemble books like that (really a list of statistics); he lists the books on Amazon, and when someone buys one he prints it out. He’s “written” a sh_tload of similar books. His goal is to completely automate the entire process, so he can sit back and rake in the big bux.
