NovelRank went live in October of 2009, bringing free sales rank and sales estimates to authors worldwide. Since that time, it’s remained ad-free, fast, resourceful, and most importantly automated, so you can continue being a brilliant writer and marketer. This is all possible because great authors have decided that this service provides value to them throughout the year. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 6th, 2013 by Mario LurigNew PRO Features: Reviews and Charts
April 3rd, 2013 by Mario Lurig
I’m happy to announce the features for NovelRank Pro are growing! Most importantly, Pro users will now see the number of reviews for their books (total) for each domain, right on the book’s detail page. This is checked nightly to see if new ones have appeared. The process uses Amazon’s API, but is resource intensive, thus it is restricted to PRO accounts only (it could not be supported site-wide due to changes by Amazon 18 months ago).
The second feature is minor, but while non-Pro books will default to Sales and Last 30 days as options in the chart, Pro users will have their last used options saved (via browser cookie) so they can easily use them across any of their books (e.g. SalesRank and Today). It saves a few clicks and thus your time, which is one of the core tenets of NovelRank Pro.
So if you’ve been holding back, now is a great time to get NovelRank Pro!
UPDATE 2013-04-05 03:01:00
The review count now shows in BOLD RED if it has changed since the last time you viewed that book’s detail page. Once viewed it ‘resets’ to normal after an hour. This should help you identify if it has changed so you don’t need to remember all your review counts.
State of the Server 2013: New hardware, better performance
February 11th, 2013 by Mario Lurig
Things have been a little rough over the last 2 weeks…
After a lot of planning, plotting, and back-and-forth with my web host, Dreamhost, I decided that NovelRank’s traffic and requests required an upgrade beyond the ~$100 Virtual Private Server (VPS) setup. My goal with this service is always to try and deliver webpages in about 2 seconds. Sure, charts, CSV files, and other heavy data requests may take a little longer, but the hope is that 99% of all the traffic on the site is served very quickly. Thus, the decision to move to a dedicated server (think a computer just for you).
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Amazon Book Sales Statistics for 2012 – Time-Based
February 5th, 2013 by Mario LurigThese statistics are provided as-is and are based on NovelRank’s sales estimates. Any inaccuracies are universally applied and should not affect the overall trends in the data. However, it is limited by the total books in NovelRank’s database, and thus is automatically biased.
TL;DR Grain of salt.
The very first chart was similar in shape across all domains, thus only one was included. All other charts are also summaries of only 2012 data and is shown for the top 3 Amazon domains tracked on NovelRank. Compared to the previous statistics post, these statistics are much less conclusive. For that reason, I encourage you to draw your own conclusions and post them in the comments below.
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