It’s more of a model than an assessment, the claim I’m making is that I don’t see how we can be sure that this works for too many shops (and which shops those are, other than the obvious), given how the relevant data might travel through these systems, and how the best-seller list makers have incentives to remain opaque about what specifically they are doing. (Barnes & Noble should of course be fine.)
I have no deeper knowledge about how such pre-order rankings work, so it seems there are two contradictory assessments:
You seem to say that it’s only really sure for Amazon (I am not sure whether you would also dismiss shops like Barnes & Noble).
At least there is one person claiming that “a German pre-order from a local bookstore will make a difference”.
It’s more of a model than an assessment, the claim I’m making is that I don’t see how we can be sure that this works for too many shops (and which shops those are, other than the obvious), given how the relevant data might travel through these systems, and how the best-seller list makers have incentives to remain opaque about what specifically they are doing. (Barnes & Noble should of course be fine.)