Amazon Rankings (Part II)

Now that my Lecturing Birds is out and about I find myself checking my Amazon.com sales rank almost perpetually. The fact that the new work is behaving more amicably than my prior (more technical, more specialized) literary effort dictates that the amount of time spent refreshing the Amazon page has become unbearably unprecedented. I am now officialy obsessed with the rankings and what they truly convey (is #100 equal to a millionaire book, #1000 equal to a global bestseller, #10000 equal to a decent-yet-not-extraordinarily-rewarding performance, #100000 equal to hold-on-to-your-day-job, #1000000 equal to well-at-least-your-mother-bought-a-copy?). Since I recently offloaded my stock portfolio, continuous monitoring of my Amazon run has become the new nail-biting stress-inducing juices-flowing addiction.

And yet, a writer should spend their time, well, writing not obssesing over the onscreen fluctuations of difficult-to-explain data (you might as well not have left the trading floor if that´s how you get your kicks). So, yes, I vow to use my laptop for pontification purposes only from now on. I better return to that unfinished chapter for my new book. But wait, just one last tiny look at my Amazon ranking.