Re: The Chavez Bounce: Chomsky No. 5 On Amazon
On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:37 AM, sean.andrews wrote:
Point taken, but, anecdotally, because Amazon may not get the stock
to fill them, as has happened to me on several occasions. I buy, they sell, tell me it
will be here in 3 weeks; 2 months go by, they delay it a few
times. Then they cancel. So, on the day that I buy “Debating
Empire,” the sales rating shoots up (because no one else was buying
it), even though it was never sent to me (and, strangely, I still
feel whole). In other words, it isn’t really a sales figure but a
measure of effective demand (or something like that).
They heavily weight recent sales in their rankings - they’re not
cumulative counts. When I was on the Moyers show when After the New
Economy came out, it shot up to 45 by the next day. It quickly fell
back to more familiar 5-digit regions.
Doug