24 July 2001

Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters Adam Barr recounts his experience publishing his book Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: What I learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer I have gathered some empirical info, based on my own sales rank. No surprise that this knowledge mostly concerns the really bad rankings. A number like 1.4 bazillion basically means you haven't sold any books and are tied at zero with every other lousy book that can't fog a mirror. At that level, the rankings are updated once a week, and if you sell a book in a week, you get a ranking around 800,000. Once you get above 100,000 the rank is recalculated daily, and numbers in the 70,000 range seem to mean about a copy a day. Meanwhile, if you are really smoking, ranked in the top 10,000, the sales rank is updated hourly, so I guess it means you are selling at least a book an hour. Or something like that. 4:44:19 PM