> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:56:24PM +0000, Paul Mison wrote:
> > Didn't the case of 'A Fist In the Bush' prove that Amazon's "Sales"
> > rankings are actually down to how many people look at things?
>
> Wasn't that more to do with the "people who like like also like *this*"
> rankings that the actual sales ranks, which they claim are actually
> based on sales, and not even on who's paid them most?
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201615711/ref=sim_books/107-8558793-
5982946
gives Lincoln Steins rank as 11.
What does this mean then, it's hardly going to be the 11th most popular book
on Amazon, maybe it's the 11th most popular Perl book. How would you feel
being number 760 in that list Dave :-)
/Robert
