Book Sales Rank – Understanding the Basics
The day has finally arrived and your book has a sales rank on Amazon. Great! Now what? Sure, maybe you start by tracking the book across Amazon, but what does it all mean? What if your book is on...
View ArticleBook Sales Rankings
I was recently asked what amount of book sales lead to rankings averaging 100, 1000, etc. Put another way, how many books would an author have to sell in a given month to have an average ranking for...
View ArticleAmazon Sales Rank of 7600 books!
In less than 9 months, NovelRank has grown to track the Amazon sales rank of over 7600 books! This is only counting Amazon.com, as the Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk sales rank numbers have steadily grown...
View ArticleAuthor Central and NovelRank Sales Rank Tracking Comparison
On December 10th, Amazon announced a new set of features available for free through Author Central: BookScan sales and historical sales rank data. Naturally, since at first glance these seem to be a...
View ArticleSales Rank Myths Busted – What Effects Changes in SalesRank
It’s time to put myths, legends, and mysteries to rest. Sales rank has been elusive for too long, so thanks to the support of NovelRank donations, I’ve conducted a series of tests to answer some long...
View ArticleSales Rank Check Frequency Changes – Growing Pains
Starting today, a new structure has been put in place to ensure the longevity and speed of NovelRank continuing through year two and beyond. This is based on the frequency that NovelRank will check the...
View ArticleAmazon.it (Italy) Sales Rank Tracking Now Available
As of earlier this week, Amazon released the Product Advertising API for Amazon.it, Italy. Within a few hours, NovelRank was enabled for tracking sales rank on Amazon.it. If you want to add your book...
View ArticleWhy Does NovelRank Underestimate Sales for Popular Books?
Every once in a while, I get an email from an author with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) access who wonders why their numbers are different between NovelRank and KDP. First and foremost, let me say...
View ArticleKDP Select Borrowed Books Effect Sales Rank
I get a lot of questions regarding what effects sales rank (now also known as best sellers ranking). I’ve done some testing on the matter to clear up some common sales rank myths, but I didn’t yet have...
View ArticleSales Rank Checking Scripts Updated for v4
This is just a quick update to let you know that the background checks that power the hourly data collection for NovelRank have been completely rewritten. While they have had improvements and tweaks...
View ArticleImproved Sales Rank Check Speed for Amazon.com
This is just a quick post that helps out the majority of users of NovelRank. I was able to request an increase to my API calls/hour with Amazon.com, meaning that within 1 hour I can make 10,800 API...
View ArticleKindle Unlimited Borrows Affect Amazon Salesrank
A quick test recently confirmed that when a customer borrows your ebook and reads it through the Kindle Unlimited program, that counts as a sale the same way as if they had purchased your Kindle book...
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