Another Take on Amazon Fail

[gonzai]

There's one thing about this whole Amazon-Fail thing (which I managed to completely miss owing to not being online all weekend) that no one seems to mention: everyone's complaining that sales rankings have disappeared. Not that the books have disappeared, or aren't available for sale anymore, but that everyone and their cousin can't see whether the book is popular or not. Do people only buy books because everyone else is buying that book? Doesn't anyone ever buy a book because they want to read it? When I go to Amazon, I already know what I want, I'm just price-shopping or looking for something that was too obscure to find locally. I've never once looked at sales rankings intentionally and they're completely irrelevant to me; apparently, I'm alone in that. I'm kinda disappointed in this 'ranking' obsession.