There's an interesting
discussion going on at
Pocket PC Thoughts.
As you are probably aware, Handango is one of the top PDA software web stores. It has recently boasted some positive press regarding it's success.
The topic of discussion is a change in the way Handango determines the best selling software. Instead of counting the number of copies sold, they have just converted to counting the most revenue produced by the sales. As a result there is a large bias towards the higher priced software, especially when it's not discounted.
It could be argued that this is a way to avoid some of the problems associated with titles getting too popular due to price cuts that don't last, but one has to think that the primary motivation is to get the biggest revenue producing titles high on the list. That's a powerful marketing tool, so I'm sure they want to get the most profitable titles the best publicity.