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[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]
Over the past week, and despite its $80 price tag, the Amazon sales rank of our anarchism/minarchism anthology has risen from 885,712 to 466,195. I have no idea how that translates into actual numbers of books sold, however.
And now down to 204,268. How helpful are these rankings, really, when they're this volatile? I wish they'd tell actual number of copies sold.
Wow, now it's up to 81,806.
Well, it’s back down to 537,803 now. Whatever that means.