As I’ve written here before, I care about local independent bookstores and support linking to Booksense rather than Amazon. Booksense is where I want to direct potential book purchasers. But as a book editor, I keep going back to Amazon’s site. Why? Because they update their mysteriously-calculated “sales rank” much more regularly than any other source of information I have about the book’s readership. I can even get Junglescan to plot a graph (such as the one here). So I end up wishing that people would buy through Booksense, but feeling cheered every time the book’s Amazon sales rank goes up. Ambivalence indeed.

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