Comments on: Richelle Mead Takes on Amazon

By: Cathie

Cathie — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:02:30 +0000

As a reader, I go some places to find out new books, I rarely read the reviews because to me its just one person’s mind on it. Doesn’t mean I have the same mind and feelings that person does. I read the blurbs there or mostly at the authors site and then shop. I know what you mean about the ratings. I ought to check if the ratings change after I buy a book. Wonder if that would answer a question. I’ll have to check the next time I go, but who knows! I buy for what I want to read, and many of my reader friends recommend me books. If I don’t like a book, its me, not the writer. Maybe it wasn’t my subject or theme. But that is the story! But I can tell you that I’ve rarely finish a book and not like because I have alot of appreciation for anyone that writes and brings so much joy in my life to read.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:42:49 +0000

I check on the rankings on Amazon when I have a new release, yeah, but other than that, I rarely pay attention to them.

I’d rather write my next book and see if I can’t make that hit #1. Or at least pretend it could.

By: Page-burner

Page-burner — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:25:59 +0000

Depends on the author. For you? Absolutely nothing! I am so shameless…

By: Richelle Mead

Richelle Mead — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:56:09 +0000

PB, is there nothing you won’t do for an ARC?

By: Page_burner

Page_burner — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:09:17 +0000

Richelle Mead rocks! And her books are pretty cool too.

By: SweetNSourGirl

SweetNSourGirl — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:01:18 +0000

That’s insane! And we wonder why authors get whacky.

By: Emma Petersen

Emma Petersen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:14:38 +0000

LMAO. Definitely the genre lists. I haven’t met JK Rowling. Heck I havent even read anything she’s written. Yes, I can admit I have never read any of the Harry Potter books.

Yeah and Amazon is notorious for the form letter responses.

By: Mark Henry

Mark Henry — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:17:16 +0000

Me, too. I could check those numbers every hour. Every G-D hour, I tell you. And my book hasn’t even been released. I’m obsessing over pre-release fluctuations can you imagine what it’ll be like after the 26th of February?

I asked someone who worked there what it meant and they just shrugged that it was an algorithm of blah blah blah. Once talk turns to numbers, I just nod.

I gotta call the doctor, now, and get some Xanax.

By: Meljean

Meljean — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:05:33 +0000

Mine are regularly six digits. I pretend that’s how much money they will make, someday. Not that I check every day or every hour or anything.

*whistles and clicks away…not to Amazon, because I was just there.*

By: kate r

kate r — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:46:20 +0000

I got over Amazon once one of my books hit the hundred thousands. Who needs to see that more than once? Every few months I look and my two Kensington books have been as low as 15,000 and as high as 1,500,000

Of course your numbers might never get so pitiful, so maybe you’ll be addicted forever, clicking and clicking. An unexplored price of success.