Thanks to Peg N. for a question that may lead other Kindle Nation citizens to find more of the books they love to read. I had shared a tweet about a recent Kindle Nation sponsor — “Karen Fenech’s GONE, this week’s Scary Saturday sponsor, jumps to #225 in Kindle Store, #8 in Contemporary Romance http://bit.ly/d2HzUi” — when Peg wrote in:
How do you find the ranking in specific categories, like “Contemporary Romance”. I can only find a Kindle Bestseller list, it doesn’t have categories.
Peg, in the course of doing my job as editor of Kindle Nation Daily I spend so much time navigating various iterations of the Kindle Store architecture that I probably take navigational issues too much for granted, but you’ve asked a good question. The Kindle Store follows much of the same incredibly powerful search/sort/browse architecture that has helped the main Amazon bookstore to become the world’s largest bookseller over the past 15 years, and it can be a great research or shopping tool.
Two ways to get started looking for a particular category:
- First, if you go to the detail page for a book that is “ranked” in such a category — such as at http://www.amazon.com/GONE
-ebook/dp/B003UV8MJM/?tag= ebest — you can find applicable categories just below the… overall Amazon sales rankings. - Second, if you go to the Kindle ebook bestseller page — at http://www.amazon.com/gp/b
estsellers/digital-text/15 4606011/?tag=ebest — you’ll see a multi-layered hierarchy of categories on the left, and you can click a first-tier category like Fiction to drill down on genres, and so forth.
Hope that helps! And here, just in case it’s helpful in getting you started after a book you are looking for, is a top-tier listings of key Kindle Store category bestseller lists, from which you can drill down to hundreds of useful, if often rather arcane, subcategories:
- Kindle Accessories
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Newspapers Only
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Blogs Only
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Magazines & Journals Only
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Books Only
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Fiction
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Nonfiction
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Hot New Releases (This includes titles released within the past 90 days).
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Movers & Shakers (This highly volatile hour-by-hour list shows the titles from the top 400 Kindle store bestsellers that have experienced the greatest percentage jump in sales rankings during the past 24 hours. For instance, a title that has jumped from #7 to #2 will show a 250% climb).
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Publishing & Books
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Literary Fiction
- Kindle Store Bestsellers: Contemporary Fiction
- Kindle Advice & How-to Bestsellers
- Kindle Arts & Entertainment Bestsellers
- Kindle Biographies & Memoirs Bestsellers
- Kindle Business & Investing Bestsellers
- Kindle Children’s Book Bestsellers
- Kindle Computers & Internet Bestsellers
- Kindle Fantasy Bestsellers
- Kindle Fiction Bestsellers
- Kindle History Bestsellers
- Kindle Humor Bestsellers
- Kindle Literary Fiction Bestsellers
- Kindle Mystery & Thrillers Bestsellers
- Kindle Nonfiction Bestsellers
- Kindle Parenting & Families Bestsellers
- Kindle Politics & Current Events Bestsellers
- Kindle Reference Bestsellers
- Kindle Religion & Spirituality Bestsellers
- Kindle Science Bestsellers
- Kindle Science Fiction Bestsellers
- Kindle Sports Bestsellers
- Kindle Travel Bestsellers
