I took a break from checking my stats on Amazon, since my book should be past it’s prime, as far as what I’m told. But I’m pleasantly surprised to see that it’s still doing well:
In the highlight, this shows it’s the four thousanth most popular book that Amazon sells (during this period, which I think is limited to an hour or a few hours).
The red arrow shows it’s the eighth most popular book in the Job Hunting book category. Here’s some interesting observations with that:
- The number one book in this category is Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Sucessful Personal Brand on the Business Battlefield … funny that it only has 1 customer review, but it is a McGraw-Hill book, and a second edition. It’s also #144 of ALL books sold in this period – big kudos to author D’Alessandro.
- Unbelievable that the always-#1 book in this category, What color is your parachute, is knocked to #2! That won’t last long, but it’s good to see a new #1 for now 🙂
- I own the next three books, in #9, Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams #10 How’d You Score That Gig?: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs-and How to Get Them and #11 Knock ’em Dead, 2008: The Ultimate Job Search Guide (Knock ’em Dead). It’s great to see my friends’ books there.
- Surprisingly, I’m on Facebook — Now What??? is sitting at #16. That might be the highest I’ve seen it there… while I have seen my LinkedIn book down around #40 or somewhere around there.
Amazon stats are quite fickle, so I don’t pretend there’s any science here, but it’s fun to pontificate every once in a while 🙂
I’m on Facebook–Now What??? is #2 for the search term, “Facebook” now – did you see that? 🙂 We are ahead of the Dummies book.
Jesse, that’s pretty cool.
You know, after I wrote this post, I remembered that both books were mentioned in a newsletter that went out to about 50k people earlier that morning. So it was just funky timing on my part, I need to check the stats in a week or two when things die down.