Perfect for the holiday season, we asked free users what deal they would prefer and the clear winner was 3 months of PRO for $33. The deal ends on October 1st, but the best part is, if you act now, the benefits would go through the prime shopping season. This is not a subscription, just a one-time payment to upgrade to PRO. Payments are collected through Stripe, a credit card processor used by thousands of companies online.
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 calls rather than 3,600 API calls. This means that (especially for books that have sold a copy in the last few days), sales rank data is being collected 100% faster than 3 months ago (~19/day vs ~9/day). That means that sales estimates will be more accurate moving forward (still underestimated for bestsellers) since the sales rank data it is based on will be more reliably captured.
One final note, some are turned off by the 100 book limit for user accounts, even for PRO accounts. The above is the reason this exists, because the more books in the system by a few individuals, the larger the slowdown they can have for everyone’s experience. NovelRank has always been about helping out the little guy authors, and that won’t change even if it means leaving money on the table.
As a reminder, PRO customers always get sales rank checks 23 of the 24 hours each day, among many other benefits.
Image credit: CC-A Marcelino Rapayla Jr.
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 over the last 6 years, this new design is leaps and bounds better since being rewritten.
After a few months of working on it, you’ve probably already noticed that NovelRank has had a major overhaul. It features a completely responsive design, meaning it works on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. 90% of the existing features were in the same place and at the same links, so transitioning involved very little relearning how to do things on the site.
Some users have already chimed in, like Jules Wake via Twitter:
Well look at you @novelrank don’t you look all new & gorgeous.