Placeholder: More Coming
…just as soon as I finish up even more of the gods-forsaken data entry that has taken over the past three weeks of my life
And I have some choice commentary coming, too — Not just why I’ve missed a month of updates, but what the time was used for and what that means. With graphs. (which, unfortunately, takes more time)
The whys-and-wherefores-post is a back burner item for the nonce, as I’m hoping to get the most recent rankings (week ending 17 May) up before noon tomorrow, which means precious little sleep for me tonight, and even after that I would like to focus more on the actual work (charts for what is this current week, nominally the w/e 24 May) and maybe then I can get around to the Big Reveal.
teaser:
Head, and tail — and long tail. And I’m no statistician, just a math nerd with access to the internet, but this isn’t the chart you were used to.
Yay charts! :) And ICv2 has charts too! Data overload….
As to the long tail, isn’t that how Amazon and its fellow-travelers are supposed to work; making all the obscure/older/niche titles available to the masses? To me this graph looks pretty similar to those charts of Amazon’s overall book sales that were so shocking 5 years ago, only a lot more compressed (with the top 100-150 books accounting for maybe half the sales?).
Comment by JRBrown — 20 May 2009, 15:28 #