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What Big Picture Visitors are Reading/Buying

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By Barry Ritholtz - January 5th, 2008, 5:15PM

Speaking of Trust: If you clicked through to AMZN from here, and bought
something, there’s a record of it that both Amazon and I have access
to.

I don’t know who bought what, I only know what was bought. (Capiche?)   

Here are the books the readers of The Big Picture bought from Amazon (AMZN) in December:
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December_tbp_books

Starting from the 1 o’clock position, and going clockwise:

 

Inside the Investor’s Brain  12.1%
Spy Wars 6.4%
30,000 Years of Art  5.7%
Super Crunchers:   5.7%
A Demon of Our Own Design 5.1%
The Black Swan    4.4%
Forces for Good:     4%
World Atlas of Wine   4%
Number Sense    4%
The Daring Book for Girls  3.7%
A Bull in China        3.4%
Big History    3.4%
The Panic of 1907:      3.4%
All the Money in the World        3%
Four Hour Work Week          3%
Complete TurtleTrader       3%
The Dangerous Book for Boys   3%
Florilegium Imperiale        2.7%
Musicophilia:  2.4%
Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD   2.4%
Wikinomics    2.4%
Behavioural Investing    2.0%
Financial Armageddon    2.0%
Military Power    2.0%
More Than You Know    1.7%
Stock Market Wizards    1.7%
NYT Almanac 2008    1.7%
The Stuff of Thought    1.7%
Your Money and Your Brain    1.7%

 

 

 

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Comments

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9 Responses to “What Big Picture Visitors are Reading/Buying”

  1. Bob A Says:
    January 5th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

    “if you offer it for sale… they will buy”
    Very interesting. How ’bout the music stuff?

  2. russell120 Says:
    January 5th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    Yes, what about the music. Not being particularly knowledgeable in the area, I generally pay more attention to your music selections.

  3. Jason G. Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 12:26 am

    What about those of us who read/buy/own several of those books, but didn’t use the links here… obviously you can’t count us with Amazon’s tools, but did we not participate? Is that the real cost of Trust?

    By the way, the best book on your list for non-professionals in the right column of your sight (IMHO) is Unexpected Returns by Ed Easterling. It didn’t make the list above, which (I hope) means that many people have already read it…

  4. dano Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    lovin’ that “Demon of Our Own Design”

    also have read “Financial Armageddon”

    like the first better…

  5. Philippe Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 3:06 am

    Interesting statistics as it seems not much trust was given in a combination of « Money and brain » my brain understands perfectly this outcome.

  6. Barry Ritholtz Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    I only have access to this data — but you’ve given me a good idea — maybe I will do a full survey re: music, film, DVDs, games, etc.

    Good idea . . .

  7. Thomas Shawn Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 7:20 am

    What? No Jim Cramer Mad Money?

  8. Jbh Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    this is a cool result. Any chance you would share the volume or % (volume / visitors)? Those figures kind of quantify “trust” into a metric, and could be expressed over time

  9. Ed Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    my fav of the past year is definitely “An American Hedge Fund”

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