As far as I can tell, here’s the list of what happened with Amazon rankings in the past week:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65 Paid in Kindle Store
Amazon Author Ranking: #13 in Books > Teens
#1 in Books > Teens > Horror
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teens > Horror
#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teens > Mysteries & Thrillers
#2 in Books > Teens > Mysteries
#4 in Books > Teens > Science Fiction
#4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teens > Science Fiction
#6 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teens > Science Fiction & Fantasy
#8 in Books > Teens
#9 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teens
Where Kindle Store is not in the list title, that includes ALL books, hardcover/paperback/ebook. That first category above (Amazon Best Sellers Rank) is ALL FICTION BOOKS on Kindle…out of well over 1 million books, HENRY FRANKS was #65. The Amazon Author Ranking is, I think, a ranking of all of an author’s titles together and how they are selling. I put #13 for that because that’s the highest that I saw on that ranking, but I didn’t know it even existed for the first 36 hours or so of sales last Thursday so there’s a good chance my high mark on that one was actually higher, but I can’t check. I know for a fact that I missed seeing the high point on some lists (for some reason Amazon’s sort-of-helpful Author Central stats does NOT have a ‘these are the rankings for your book(s) in our various categories’ section. No, I do not know WHY they don’t as it seems to me as though it’d be fairly simple to do…). For ALL of the above categories that HENRY did not hit #1, I listed the highest ranking that I, personally, saw, which means, as previously stated, I might have missed some. Also, since Amazon has SO many categories and SO many different places where they rank books and authors for different things it is quite probable that I missed some categories as well.
To put it in perspective as to just how surreal this has been, take a look at the OTHER books on some of these lists:
Top Ten Amazon Best Sellers In Teen Books (Kindle and hardcover/paperback, all genres)
1. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
3. Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia
4. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6. Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia
7. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
8. Henry Franks by me
9. The Perks Of being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
10. Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia
Amazon Top Nine Bestselling Kindle Teen Science Fiction
1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. Henry Franks by me
5. Divergent by Veronica Roth
6. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
7. The Hunger Games Trilogy
8. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
9. Prodigy by Marie Lu
One week later, HENRY FRANKS remains on multiple Amazon Bestseller lists:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,998 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#46 in Books > Teens > Horror
#50 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teens > Horror
#62 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teens > Mysteries & Thrillers
The numbers have gone down (so they’ll surely have changed by the time I get around to posting this) but that’s to be expected, I guess.
Wow-time for a movie!!
Comment by claudia salomon — 16 February 2013 @ 12:15 am
[...] Since then, HENRY FRANKS (final official title, after losing the half-hearted argument to keep ‘The Memory Of’ in the title), debuted in September 2012. Over the seven months since the book has been on the market, I’ve had a number of signings and school visits which have been absolutely wonderful. In Feb. 2013 the book hit a number of Amazon bestseller rankings: [...]
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