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Sorting Book Results on User Pages

Hey look, another new feature based on user feedback! I’ll be honest, I never considered this because I track so few books, but for those publishers or crazy productive romance novel writers tracking TONS of books, there is now a way to quickly sort the books on your User Page.

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

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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!

A Look Behind the Curtain at NovelRank

Just wanted to put out a quick post to give everyone an update on what happens behind the scenes at NovelRank to bring you all of this great research and data for free every hour of every day. Here are some quick stats:

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!

UK Kindle Books Now Available for Amazon Sales Rank Tracking

With the August 5th announcement from Amazon that Kindle Edition ebooks will be now be available on Amazon.co.uk, NovelRank has been updated to support this new feature! You can now track your Kindle book sales on Amazon.co.uk by going to the book tracking page on NovelRank and adding your URL.

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.

NovelRank: Faster Than Your Readers

Book Sales Worldwide Shown on User Pages

If you use the User Accounts feature to view multiple books on one page, you are limited to a single location at a time (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, etc.). However, based on user feedback, you can now get sales rank, book sales worldwide for the current month and for the entire year by hovering your mouse over any book in your list:

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.