The default was always the order in which they were added to your User Page through the Account Management section. Well, now there are some sorting options at the top of the page, including:

• Default: Same as before, based on the order the books were added to your user page
• SalesRank: Pretty straightforward, the lower the rank the higher up on the page
• Recent Sales: The books with the most recent sales will be at the top
• Month Sales: Based on the total number of sales in the current month

Your default sorting preferences have been added as an option in Account Management!

Simply click on the Sorting section and choose which option you would prefer. Once chosen, click Change to save your changes.

When you return to your User Page, it will now display using your selected Sorting order!

• Currently, over 12,500 unique books have their sales rank tracked every hour
• Approximately 300-500 new books are added each week
• Every hour, 900+ different pages/rss feeds/widgets are viewed on NovelRank.com (total hourly cached pages)
• NovelRank grows, with your support, by 20% every month
• NovelRank is storing over 70,000,000 records of sales rank history across Amazon’s worldwide domains
• The history grows by tens of thousands every hour
• There are 300+ User Pages tracking 2,900 books; That is an average of 9 books per user page

If using other sales rank tracking websites, you not only would not get all the services, features, and data NovelRank provides, but the average user would also be spending anywhere from $108 – $228 a year! Any donations to NovelRank from users saving money by using this free service receive a handwritten thank you card (the last round was just mailed out). You spend a lot of time on NovelRank, so I’m happy to spend a little time sending a small card.

I’m waiting on a few items to fall into place before working on a few more new things (possibly an Android app!) for NovelRank, but thanks to all of the user feedback I’ve received, I like to think that NovelRank continues to meet many of your needs as authors and publishers, wherever you are in the world.

Cheers,
Mario Lurig
Creator, NovelRank

PS
NovelRank turns 1 year old in October, and a huge book giveaway is planned; Stay tuned!

Don’t worry, if NovelRank is already tracking your Kindle Edition book, just grab the Amazon URL again or the book’s ASIN (highlighted below) and enter it into the tracking page. The system will search for a sales rank on Amazon.co.uk and add it if it is available.

http://www.novelrank.com/asin/1234567890

Note: In most cases, your kindle book has not yet sold a copy, so no sales rank is present and NovelRank will not start tracking. As soon as you have a sales rank (a single sale will do it) on Amazon.co.uk, it can be added to NovelRank using the method above.

<Cheesy Slogan>NovelRank: Faster Than Your Readers</Cheesy Slogan>

• “A Modest Proposal” by Michele Ashman Bell
• “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu (Classic Edition)

A Modest Proposal

This is a signed copy of A Modest Proposal by Michele Ashman Bell, a bestselling author from Utah who starts off The Butterfly Box series with this book:

“… about a group of friends that all go their separate ways after high school, but are bound together by a tragedy. It follows one girl in particular and her quest to design modest clothing.”

If you would like your chance of winning this book, add your email address to the form below. You’ll be notified by email if you are the winner, and you will also be opting into a follow-up email to let you know when the next book in the giveaway becomes available.

This giveaway is closed. Check out the current giveaway.

Share the Book Giveaway with Others:
Share or or http://www.novelrank.com/book-giveaway (will always be current)

The Art of War

This classic book, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, was donated by El Paso Norte Press who provides various classic books for readers. I’m jealous of giving this book away as I’ve heard so much about it! It’s quoted through movies, television, and popular culture; a perfect addition to anyone’s bookshelf and most definitely a conversation starter!

If you would like your chance of winning this book, add your email address to the form below. You’ll be notified by email if you are the winner, and you will also be opting into a follow-up email to let you know when the next book in the giveaway becomes available.

This giveaway is closed. Check out the current giveaway.

Share the Book Giveaway with Others:
Share or or http://www.novelrank.com/book-giveaway (will always be current)

The Rules
Any email address that is not valid will not be accepted. Any email to a temporary mailbox service (e.g. mailinator.com) will be disqualified and may be publicly mocked. Unless otherwise stated, only one book can be won by any single email address. Multiple entries for a single book will not be accepted (you can enter to win each book if different books are offered in a given month). The winner will be randomly drawn no later than the 3rd of the following month and contacted via email to receive shipping information. Winners who fail to respond to the email within 72 hours will forfeit their win to another random winner.

There is a half-second delay before the pop-up appears to ensure it doesn’t happen accidentally. It will also disappear when you leave that current book’s row, automatically. This request was one of the top request on the user page feedback survey, found on the left side of your user page. If you haven’t filled it out or if you have and you want to change your answers, you are more than welcome to do so.

As a space consideration, book sales in the table only show the current month. Like this feature? Consider donating to support the 2010 donation drive.

Music Sales Tracker.com can track music and albums such as:
Audio CDs and MP3 Downloads.

After completing some major improvements to the core of NovelRank over the weekend, these sister sites were launched to meet the needs of their particular audiences. These are paired down versions of NovelRank, in that there is no blog, no social network accounts, and no donation requests. Both sister sites are as feature rich as NovelRank in the sense of individual item tracking, easy access, free to use, and including the User Pages feature to track multiple items. However, moving forward, updates and new features may not be sent to these sister websites while I concentrate on continuing to make NovelRank even better for you, the authors.

As a final improvement, if someone on NovelRank attempts to add a video or music item, they will be automatically brought to the tracking page of the appropriate sister site. Neat trick, huh? I hope this will help filter each type of creative individual to the appropriate site for their needs.

In the past few months, donations for NovelRank have slowed to a trickle while I continue to add new features based on user feedback, continuing to make NovelRank the best resource for tracking of Amazon sales for yourself or on behalf of other authors. The current rate for my time is $1.20/hour (based on all previous donations). With that in mind, I’m running the only donation drive of 2010, because I need your support to continue to bring you the best features and benefits.

Of course, I’m happy to give something more in return, so here is what you can receive by donating: A coveted Featured Book spot on NovelRank, one of only 9 spots! Combined over the last 8 months, the 9 books featured on the Track, FAQ, Publisher, Top 10, and Login have received just under 100,000 page views! The Track page accounts for 82,000 of those views in the last 8 months.

Donate $250 or more – You may choose 3 books to be rotated on the Track page & all other pages
Donate $100-$249 – You may choose 1 book to be rotated on the Track page or 3 books on the other pages
Donate $30-$99 – You may have 1 book rotated through the FAQ, Publisher, Top 10, and Login pages

Any donations above $10 will receive a personally written thank you card. After donating, you can either email me or you will receive an email shortly after the donation asking you which book(s) will be included.

Thanks for contributing to this community supported website. All Featured Books will stay up through the end of 2010, at least. The amount of page views received is not a fixed amount, but is dependent on the number of qualified donations and thus the number of books in rotation.

Cheers,
Mario Lurig
Creator, NovelRank.com

Photo courtesy of kanjiroushi – Creative Commons (Attribution)