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Originally Posted by scottjl
hmm. no clue then. i'll admit i downloaded your book but haven't had time to read it yet. but it would have to be amazing to compete against the likes of shakespeare, twain, or austen.
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LOL, please don't start my book with the expectation that it competes with these authors! You'll end up throwing your iPad across the room in disgust and I don't want that on my conscience. I mean, hey I obviously like the book, but it's sooo not Shakespeare.
You can't see it in the screenshot, but #3 was a free slow cooker recipe book. I think what catapulted books like MetaGame and the slowcooker to the top was that it was free and it was new. Everyone had already downloaded free Dracula and 20k Under the Sea, etc. In addition, Amazon has a sophisticated browsing and referral system (e.g. "People who bought this bought that") not to mention their genre best seller lists are easy to find. So once the ball got rolling, then it snowballed.
I don't have an iPad and so I can't use their iBook app, but from what I can tell from this thread, their storefront is pretty primitive right now. As jsWolf said on this thread, "browsing is lousy" and since I'm not a well known author, people aren't going to search on me for no reason.
Now that I realize this, I think you're right. MetaGame won't get into the top 50 because it isn't in the top 50. Classic chicken and egg issue...