What About Your Book’s Amazon Sales Rank?
July 9, 2008 by Anne Wayman
Filed under Jobs
He’s done it again! Joe Wikert, creator of Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog has a post called: Amazon Sales Rank and it’s truly helpful.
First it points to a great article called What You Need to Know about Amazon’s Sales Rank by Bill Stephens over at Beneath The Cover. Bill details how Amazon calculates rank then gives some guidelines about what those numbers actually mean.
Not content with just one source, Joe points to Amazon’s rather cryptic statement about their ranking plus a link to TitleZ currently free web based service that lets you compare ranking of many books and RankTracer which gives more detail for a fee.
Finally he points to yet another website, dog ear publishing and their recently updated article, Amazon Sales Rank, that, among other things actually predicts how many sales you can expect from various rankings.
Thanks Joe!
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If you’re interested in Amazon sales ranks, you might want to visit Sales Rank Express, which has a FAQ giving you more current, accurate info than what Joe refers to, and which also lets you monitor multiple sales ranks on Amazon on six of its sites worldwide.
Aaron, that is nifty… can you tell me why my book, Powerfully Recovered! has a high price of $42? I love the fact I can see how many folks are offering it… and I just did the US at the moment
Thanks
Hi Anne,
I know its been a year since your original post but if you are still tracking Amazon ranks you should check out Metric Junkie. Its free and allows authors to track 10 books simultaneously. The rich graphs the service provides can really help you derive meaning from the data.
http://www.metricjunkie.com
Hey Anne,
Wanted to introduce you to another option: NovelRank. Completely free, without the ‘beta’ moniker, and also without the ads. Tracking .com, .ca, and .co.uk (though I can add .de, .fr, and .co.jp in about 2 seconds). If you’re like me, you never stop tracking (I published over a year ago). :)
Cheers.