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This must be revenge
For hating algebra
Claiming letters
Should not be found in math
Now I find numbers in my trade
Rankings and sales
Addicted to simple addition
Or discovering the key
To give these digits sense
Sell one to leap ahead
Sell four to take a dive
Standing still
When six have found new homes
It makes no sense
Yet I cannot look away
Expecting it to guide my path
And pat me on the back
Still a literary child
Who needs numerical assurance
That he is doing the right thing
This is a new goal for 2014: Get to the point where I no longer care about the rankings and sales.
Legends of Windemere 
There is a difference between “no longer care about the rankings and sales” and “monitoring said rankings and sales multiple times a day and stressing out about it.”
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True. Though, I would like to get to a point where the fluctuations don’t worry me. For example, I was away all day. Now, I’m back to see Allure of the Gypsies has be rather quiet. It’s made me a little panicky. I’d like to get to the point where I simply shrug and go ‘only an off day’.
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Its going to be just as hard to get away from caring about rankings as it will be to get away from math…nearly impossible.
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Math is truly the bane of my existence. That and alarm clocks.
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Thank you, I truly enjoy your blog and hope many more stop in to read. Again Congratulations. Gede Prama 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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Math is not my forte…never has been. Nothing to do with rankings and sales makes sense to me after spending an entire week studying books and reviews rankings on seller platforms. I saw books in the #800,000 with over a thousand good reviews, and I saw books with 50 bad reviews ranking at #68 in their genre…I am enlightened in many ways after this study, but more confused than ever.
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I know. It makes very little sense. The reviews always confuse me too. I’ve see a few books with nearly 80 5-star reviews and a few 4-stars. Yet, they rank very low for some reason. I wonder if many of the reviews are from people who got free copies, so the sales are low. Again, math is confusing.
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I saw books with literally thousands of stellar reviews which ranked low (as low as #800,000). All I can figure was at one time they sold like hotcakes, but presently they aren’t moving.
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Guess everything cools off at some point.
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Yesterday my book paid off the pizza delivery guy’s tip, and today it bought me a (cheap) bottle of wine…I am not complaining. That’s my assessment of the math. I am concerned that it isn’t getting reviews…but best be careful what I wish for…LOL
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I’m waiting until after tax season before I start using my royalties for anything beyond advertising. We’re hoping we can start paying the cellphone bill with it by late spring.
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Love it. 4,361 sales + 83 reviews = too much stat tracking. 🙂
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Makes one’s head spin. Gets even rougher if one is trying to figure out what causes any spikes. You can never really tell.
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It’s so hard, isn’t it??? So glad you were able to be creative, despite the anxiety, and produce this poem!!!
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It was surprisingly easy to write. I was also out of Internet range all day, so I’m going through number checking withdrawal. Wrote the poem in advance out of fear of the nervous twitching.
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