This will lead to the Amazon Popularity Effect, which will increase the amount of promotion that Amazon is willing to give you. The best way to improve your Amazon BSR is to develop steady sales of your book over time. Basically, if you show steady sales over a month, your sale rank will be higher than if you got all those sales at once. It is a complex algorithm that also takes steady sales vs spiked sales into account. How is BSR calculated?īSR is calculated based on the number of sales you are making when compared to other authors. The closer to 1 you get, the more sales you are making. Want more videos like this? Then click HERE to subscribe to my YouTube channel What is BSR on Amazon?īSR stands for Best Sellers Rank (it is also sometimes referred to Book Sales Rank), and refers to the ranking that you will find under the Product Details section of a book sales landing page on Amazon. Want to see more of this Amazon Best Seller rank in action? Check out this video: This is why it's important not to put all of your eggs in one Amazon KDP basket, at least not for the long term.

Plus, there's Audible, other retailers, and much more to consider. You can repeat this process for the print book (paperback or hardcover), just remember to use “Books” instead of “Kindle Books” when you enter the number into the Amazon sales estimator. All this means is that, at this point in time, it's only making about 1 sale per day in Kindle only. Step 4: Repeat for any Amazon product listing that you want, as long as it is a book.ĭoes this mean that Battlefield Earth isn't a bestselling book? Well, not necessarily.

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