Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’

Re:Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box ... by floren on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:10PM (#23577867)

I was just listening to a podcast that included Steve Rinella lamenting that his recent wild game cookbook didn't make the NYT Best Seller list despite selling out on Amazon... If I remember correctly, it was precisely because of pre-orders. Thus, as he prepares to release his latest book, he's asking fans to buy the book, but to try and mix it up from just Amazon pre-ordering: pre-order at independent bookstores, order on release day, etc.

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Re:Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box ... by netcan on Friday June 19, 2020 @05:45PM (#23579166)

SEO everywhere.

This is all getting to be too much.

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Re:Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box ... by interestica on Friday June 19, 2020 @09:05PM (#23580597)

Seriously. I swear people are using it for baby name choice.

Though I wonder if some version of optimization was done in the past? At the top of the attendance list, I always got called on first....

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Re:Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box ... by ALittleLight on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:47PM (#23581453)

Amazon could easily improve their rankings by changing it from "most purchased" to "pages read" or a similar metric. "Time users spent reading per dollar cost" would be a good measure. You could add something in to get a novelty factor if you wanted.

This would solve the pre-order problem as books wouldn't rank until people started reading them. It would also weed out books that people buy but don't actually read.

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Re:Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box ... by ashtonkem on Friday June 19, 2020 @05:50PM (#23579212)

Mike Duncan said that the minimum preorder volume to get on the NYT best seller’s list is somewhere near 5,000.

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