I figured out how to add a salesbar widget to Election Law Center.  Earlier I promised sales rank data periodically for the new election law books by John Fund/Hans von Spakovsky, and Tova Wang and Rick Hasen.  Rather than take the time to periodically update the sales rankings at Amazon, Novelrank has a way to do it automatically with widgets.

Important note – think of American Top 40 when you look at the rankings.  Lower is better.  Injustice reached #23 at Amazon and #13 at Barnes and Noble, then slowly “fell” from there, even though the numbers went “up.”

Scroll way down to the bottom of this page on the left to see sales rankings.  These three books all launch in August 2012, so the rankings will offer comparable data along the natural sales arc of a book.  Injustice launched in October of last year so it will be on a different arc, but  I included Injustice also in the sidebar.

Novel rank confesses that their “units sold” model underestimates.  They have no way to know actual sales by unit.  So they show a single book sold every time the ranking goes up.

One final note, as of now, nobody has bought Tova Wang’s book at Amazon so there is no sales ranking. Amazon won’t rank you until after your first sale.  So someone needs to make a purchase of her book and lift it out of hibernation.

I figured out how to add a salesbar widget to Election Law Center.  Earlier I promised sales rank data periodically for the new election law books by John Fund/Hans von Spakovsky, and Tova Wang and Rick Hasen.  Rather than take the time to periodically update the sales rankings at Amazon, Novelrank has a way to do it automatically with widgets.

Important note – think of American Top 40 when you look at the rankings.  Lower is better.  Injustice reached #23 at Amazon and #13 at Barnes and Noble, then slowly “fell” from there, even though the numbers went “up.”

Scroll way down to the bottom of this page on the left to see sales rankings.  These three books all launch in August 2012, so the rankings will offer comparable data along the natural sales arc of a book.  Injustice launched in October of last year so it will be on a different arc, but  I included Injustice also in the sidebar.

Novel rank confesses that their “units sold” model underestimates.  They have no way to know actual sales by unit.  So they show a single book sold every time the ranking goes up.

One final note, as of now, nobody has bought Tova Wang’s book at Amazon so there is no sales ranking. Amazon won’t rank you until after your first sale.  So someone needs to make a purchase of her book and lift it out of hibernation.