A bit of Amazon oddity...
Jun. 30th, 2006 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There's an odd little rubric on Amazon.com which asks "What do customers ultimately buy after viewing items like this?"
For "Jin SHei", I get
55% buy Blue Fingers : A Ninja's Tale by Cheryl Aylward Whitesel $9.75
27% buy The Aware (The Isles of Glory) by Glenda Larke $6.99
12% buy the item featured on this page: The Secrets of Jin-shei by Alma Alexander $10.17
6% buy Changer of Days by Alma Alexander $6.99
OOOOkay.
I mean Glenda Larke is a friend and a fine writer, but what's this? People come bouncing onto the "Jin Shei" Amazon page, and then nerly a THIRD of them bounce off to buy a book by someone else entirely? I'm WOUNDED, I am... :)
I mean, even putting the two percentages that DO pertain to me together, and I get more than fifty percent of folks who peer at my book running off to buy something about ninjas instead...? Maybe I should rethink my plots...
Oh well. Tomorrow is a new month. One heaves a deep philosophical sigh and soldiers on (or, if I've learned my lesson here, should that be ninjas on...?)
For "Jin SHei", I get
55% buy Blue Fingers : A Ninja's Tale by Cheryl Aylward Whitesel $9.75
27% buy The Aware (The Isles of Glory) by Glenda Larke $6.99
12% buy the item featured on this page: The Secrets of Jin-shei by Alma Alexander $10.17
6% buy Changer of Days by Alma Alexander $6.99
OOOOkay.
I mean Glenda Larke is a friend and a fine writer, but what's this? People come bouncing onto the "Jin Shei" Amazon page, and then nerly a THIRD of them bounce off to buy a book by someone else entirely? I'm WOUNDED, I am... :)
I mean, even putting the two percentages that DO pertain to me together, and I get more than fifty percent of folks who peer at my book running off to buy something about ninjas instead...? Maybe I should rethink my plots...
Oh well. Tomorrow is a new month. One heaves a deep philosophical sigh and soldiers on (or, if I've learned my lesson here, should that be ninjas on...?)
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Date: 2006-07-04 07:34 pm (UTC)As to how you get onto the other list - I honestly have no idea. Perhaps you might ask your publisher's publicity department to look into it (and if you find out antyhing useful, let us know! [grin])