Nice to be #1

After putting up a few test ebooks on Amazon's Kindle store, I forgot about it for a few days, as I didn't expect too much from it. No sense putting too much effort into something with a low ROI, particularly when it's too easy for a small publisher to get lost in the crowd. Checked in today, and saw that all four titles have sold at least 1 copy, with Christmas! selling four copies so far. Amazingly, this places that title as the current #1 in the Fiction > Genre Fiction > Anthologies category, and #3 in Fiction > Short Stories category. Overall, it is #689. Kind of sad, really. I'm not sure this bodes well for Kindle as a generalist ebook distributor. I'm sure, that in Long Tail fashion, the most popular books are selling many, many copies, but there seems to be a pretty steep curve there...

What is particularly annoying, though, is that when you search the Kindle Store for "Christmas," this title comes up as #88, while most of the titles that come up first have far larger rankings (fewer copies sold recently). I'm guessing most of my sales are coming from links from this website, rather than Amazon searches, but don't have any way to test that theory.