To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:48:51 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skiffy Book Club Top 50
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:05:47 -0500 "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> writes:
>

> Starting with #11, the list is alphabetical by title.
>
> --Ted White
>

That is an astute observation.  What are the chances that the actual
sales rank would precisely correspond with an alphabetical ordering by
title, for 40 titles in a row?  Vanishingly small, I would think.  But
there may be an explanation other than that the information is bogus.
Perhaps the ranking was done by grouping books in sales ranges, and then
the software which reported the results, by default alphabetized the
titles within each range.  For example, sales of zero to 10,000 might
have been the lowest range, 10,001 to 20,000 the next range, and so on.

Ron Kean

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