It’s been fun watching the Amazon sales rank of In Her Name bounce up and down in the Amazon Kindle store. When I first started paying attention to them, the book was at around #29,000 out of about 110,000 titles (note that this was a few months ago – there are around 200,000 books in the Kindle store now!). Then I think it spiked to around #3,500 with the first sale, then got up to just shy of #1,000 with another sale or two over the next few days.

Then it dropped back down past #10,000, then popped back up again to #1,159 (maybe higher, that’s just what it was when I checked) when someone else must have bought a copy (or two?).

At that point, it was in the top twenty (measured by sales rank, not bestselling, which I assume is largely a function of copies sold), in three different categories: Science Fiction>Adventure, Fantasy>Epic, and Romance>Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost.

I thought I’d better get proof to show my parents for when they get back from their birding trip to Ecuador (hey, they’d never believe me!), so I took a screen shapshot of In Her Name’s Amazon listing. Is that cool, or what? I’m not sure that the statistical whipsawing says anything too significant about Amazon’s page rank algorithm, other than there’s gotta be a huge step between #1,000 and #100, but what the heck: it’s fun to watch!

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