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Ego surfers count their 15 clicks of cyberfame

Chicagoan Elaine Soloway, author of "The Division Street Princess," has an obsession: She checks each day, often more than once, to see where her book ranks on Amazon.com’s sales chart.

"I feel really good when it’s in five figures, and I’m a little down when it’s in six figures," she said.

Soloway checks because the 68-year-old author wants to know what might be driving sales of her first book, a memoir. But she also looks compulsively because she can.

"I check all the time," she said on a day when her book had jumped to 92,407. "If you consider that obsessed, I am."

She’s not the only one.

By Eric Benderoff
Tribune staff reporter

Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0608300222aug30,1,2582103.story?coll=chi-business-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

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