Re: ~ Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Author and Gay Man, Dies ~

David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

[snippage description of the various Amazon rankings.]

>I wonder how much of this reflects the books that high school and 
>college English teachers assign, and how much books that readers 
>actually read on their own.


Unless you checked those numbers before the news came out - those
numbers should be regarded with some suspicion.  Amazon generates
those numbers in near real time and the algorithm weights recent sales
over lifetime sales but does not exclude the latter.  (Leastaways
that's how it used to work before they became Really Big and stopped
discussing such matters in public.)

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL