Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Roger Burton West
On or about Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:39:08PM +, Michael Stevens typed: Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... (I think they said 3-5 weeks) Ditto. It's one of the 9 things remaining before they ship my latest order. Roger

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Stevens
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:35:10AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Data Munging with Perl by David Cross Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... (I think they said 3-5 weeks) Michael

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Cross
At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:39:08 +, Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:35:10AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Data Munging with Perl by David Cross Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! Now if they'd just actually

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Cross
At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:44:25 +, Struan Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * at 01/02 08:35 -0500 Dave Cross said: Data Munging with Perl by David Cross Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! a day in the life of a famous perl author:

RE: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Cross
At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:40:08 - , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought you were boycotting/not paying any attention to amazon ? Boycotting, yes. No paying any attention to, no - that would be stupid. Much as I hate it, I must accept that the majority of my sales will come thru Amazon. That's

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Struan Donald
* at 01/02 08:35 -0500 Dave Cross said: Data Munging with Perl by David Cross Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! a day in the life of a famous perl author: goto: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110006/ while (1){ look at

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Stevens
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:52:02AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... (I think they said 3-5 weeks) Did you order it from amazon.co.uk? amazon.com have it stock and are sending it out now. It'll be another couple of weeks before it hits the

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Tony Bowden
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:56:24PM +, 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

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread James Powell
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:42:24PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: On or about Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:39:08PM +, Michael Stevens typed: Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... (I think they said 3-5 weeks) Ditto. It's one of the 9 things remaining before they ship

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Robert Shiels
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:56:24PM +, 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

Re: Amazon Sales Rank

2001-02-01 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Dave Cross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *Data Munging with Perl *by David Cross * *Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 * *Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! http://cpan.valueclick.com/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/ contains 'amarank' which is a script you can use to feed the obsession :) It's