Number of Amazon book reviews (or reviewers)

[pberinstein]

Does anyone have any ideas for figuring out the number of book reviews or reviewers on Amazon? This is for a biz plan of mine. Not critical, but would be nice.

[hugh]

if the info is available, why not do a random sample of 50 books - just count up number of reviews/reviewers.

then you have your multiple of avg. reviews per book/avg reviewers and multiply by Amazon's catalog.

You could refine by saying: avg reviews for best sellers. avg reviews for ... etc.

[Gesine]

Hmmm... you could write a script... in Visual Basic, for instance... but it's a LOT of work. If it's not critical, I wouldn't do it.

Have you tried just asking amazon? Their PR department might be proud to give out that kind of info.

[pberinstein]

I tried to get them to answer me for a January 30th deadline on another matter--an article I'm writing--and they never got back to me. So I'm not too hopeful about trying again. But it's not that big a deal. The answer isn't that important.

[jefuchs]

There are 7,770,000 as of today, according to Google

http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:%22amazon.com:+profile+for%22&num=100&hl=en&hs=1GE&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&filter=0

[pberinstein]

Wow, that's brilliant, JE!

Isn't that the number of reviewers rather than reviews, however?

Very clever. Thank you!!!

[jefuchs]

Yes, it's the number of reviewers, but you original post said reviews or reviewers.

[pberinstein]

By golly, you're right. I did say reviews or reviewers. Actually, reviewers is better for my purposes.

Thank you so much again!!!!!