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Posted on: December 11, 2009 10:11 AM, by Chad Orzel
You know, if somebody were to put together an application that would periodically check the Amazon sales rank of a given book and generate a Google Analytics style time series graph, and charge authors $5/book to see the output, I bet they'd make a bunch of money.
Granted, it would put that person on the same moral level as a crack dealer, but I imagine a big pile of $5 bills would go a long way to soothe that...
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Here you go: http://www.mbeckler.org/dog_physics/
I've had to do this sort of thing before so it only took a few minutes to throw together on the web. Hope that's what you were looking for. The page parsing is rather fragile, so don't be surprised if it breaks as more data is collected, or the page structure changes.
Posted by: Matthew | December 11, 2009 12:10 PM
How on earth did your wonderful book get paired up with "The Intention Experiment" (in their "best value" window, one may buy the two books together)? That makes your book just one link away from "what the bleep do we know?", the grossest misuse of quantum physics ever to hit the screen!
Posted by: Anon | December 11, 2009 5:02 PM
Here you go: http://www.mbeckler.org/dog_physics/
Hey, that's awesome.
Thanks very much.
Posted by: Chad Orzel | December 11, 2009 5:07 PM
Matthew did a great job with his quick response. There are quite a few sales rank tracker sites actually! I run one and I'm sure some of the other ones will eventually find this post and leave a comment ;) Best of luck with your book.
Posted by: Steven | March 5, 2010 10:26 PM