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Originally Posted by Marc Johnson
I'm guessing it's just an email notification they give to the publishers. The publishers then ignore it. I doubt there are many notifications they get. I could be wrong though. I have no idea how it goes.
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The above is how I always figured it worked too. A monthly computer-generated report, probably e-mailed, each individual publisher getting a report for just his own offerings.
I used to do computer generated reports, so the above should have been no big deal for an individual at Amazon to accomplish. So I assume it exists.
For a book written in the past like
The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
I always assume that Amazon reports an interest level of three times a month and the publisher does not care.
For a book like
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
I always assume that Amazon reports an interest level of 20,000 times a month and the publisher wants to speak with the author.
In Rowlings case it is probably a wasted effort on the part of the publisher, but you get the idea.