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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: "(Number+) bought or read in past month"
« Last post by cecilia_writer on May 17, 2024, 05:34:22 PM »
Quote from: TimothyEllis on May 17, 2024, 12:26:10 PM
Quote from: cecilia_writer on May 17, 2024, 03:53:21 AM
I wonder if this is only on amazon.com - my new release has unexpectedly sold over 200 copies this month

Quote from: Seoulite on May 16, 2024, 02:44:51 PM
it says "100K+ bought or read in past month."

Slight scale imbalance.

100,000 sales/reads in a month to get that. The quoted book has high level orange tags, which I suspect comes first before the extra note.

Yes, when I thought about this overnight I realised it probably only applied to books in top 20s or something, sorry.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: "(Number+) bought or read in past month"
« Last post by TimothyEllis on May 17, 2024, 12:26:10 PM »
Quote from: cecilia_writer on May 17, 2024, 03:53:21 AM
I wonder if this is only on amazon.com - my new release has unexpectedly sold over 200 copies this month

Quote from: Seoulite on May 16, 2024, 02:44:51 PM
it says "100K+ bought or read in past month."

Slight scale imbalance.

100,000 sales/reads in a month to get that. The quoted book has high level orange tags, which I suspect comes first before the extra note.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: Silly Spammers
« Last post by Anarchist on May 17, 2024, 09:26:50 AM »
Quote from: Post-Crisis D on May 17, 2024, 05:06:47 AM
Today's spam was . . .

"Order ASAP for Price Month!"


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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: Silly Spammers
« Last post by Post-Crisis D on May 17, 2024, 05:28:47 AM »
You can request money or send an invoice to someone via PayPal.  I don't know what happens if you decline to pay.  Maybe there's an option to decline or report it as an error or fake?  I think I might have gotten one once, but I'm not sure.  The ones I do remember getting are all fake.  They get sent by eMail and they hope you click their links because if you go to PayPal directly and login, you will find no invoice there.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: Silly Spammers
« Last post by LilyBLily on May 17, 2024, 05:21:23 AM »
This week I got a request from somebody in Estonia (I think that's the "es" ending) through PayPal for some big dollar amount. Then another email saying it had been canceled--although the body of the email said I had paid them.

I went to the real PayPal and changed my password. PayPal said there had been "unusual activity" and wanted a little more verification than usual, which I gave. No money was paid out.

I did not know one could request money from someone via PayPal. I assume I have to okay a payment request after it is made. It does seem like a dangerous possibility if the hackers figure out a way to bypass my manually okaying the payment.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: Silly Spammers
« Last post by Post-Crisis D on May 17, 2024, 05:06:47 AM »
Today's spam was . . .

"Order ASAP for Price Month!"
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: "(Number+) bought or read in past month"
« Last post by cecilia_writer on May 17, 2024, 03:53:21 AM »
I wonder if this is only on amazon.com - my new release has unexpectedly sold over 200 copies this month (mostly on co.uk though) and there is no sign of it - I don't seem to be seeing it on anyone else's so that is some consolation!
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: "(Number+) bought or read in past month"
« Last post by Bill Hiatt on May 17, 2024, 12:09:17 AM »
I have seen this on some other kinds of products for a while.

From glancing at the discussion on FB, I noticed an alleged Amazon response that makes it sound as if the figure is more than just borrows and reads. It might, for example, include listens. (Amazon uses that data in its Amazon Charts system.)
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / Re: "(Number+) bought or read in past month"
« Last post by cuberoute on May 16, 2024, 08:55:14 PM »
Interesting that it seems disconnected from ranking a little. I have a audible title with 500+ on it, and the books with worse ranks say 10K bought.
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What are Amazon doing now? [Public] / "(Number+) bought or read in past month"
« Last post by Seoulite on May 16, 2024, 02:44:51 PM »

It seems Amazon is now posting estimates of reads/boughts on the books' pages in small font, right above the synopses. For example, on Freida McFadden's Never Lie page, it says "100K+ bought or read in past month." I thought it might only apply to KU books, so I checked out some wide authors. It's the same for them as well.

Have you noticed these additions on your books' pages? From my brief observations, though, I think this only applies to books selling 100+ per month.
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