Amazon best sellers-- a gamable system
Mar. 9th, 2016 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nancylebovA picture of the author's foot and three sales = "best seller". Definitely funny, though I have no idea whether amazon bestsellers are mostly low quality.
When a measurement becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
That being said, apparently the New York Times Bestseller list is bad but not totally useless.
When a measurement becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
That being said, apparently the New York Times Bestseller list is bad but not totally useless.
