Addicted to Amazon rank checker

The completely free service, recently featured in The New York Times, is found at www.salesrankexpress.com.

Sales Rank Express can look up books by author, publisher, title words, ISBN, or any combination of the four. With the click of another button, it can look up all formats of a single title, or information on ten of that title's top competitors. Missing and incorrect data is easy to spot, and Sales Rank Express provides a button for each book to take visitors right to Amazon's correction form.

Users can check books just as easily in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and Japan as in the US, whether or not they know the language.

Sales Rank Express even includes information not available on Amazon itself. The number of copies in stock is drawn from Amazon's own data, and is not reported anywhere else on the Web.

Full documentation on site helps you understand the meaning and relevance of the information presented, and provides valuable tips for power users. For instance, users will learn how to "chain" requests for promotional pairings so they can quickly survey their book's appearance on Also Bought lists and exit offers.

The ease of checking large amounts of data can even help in analyzing Amazon itself. In late 2006 and early 2007, a prototype of Sales Rank Express was used to document Amazon's apparent manipulation of Also Bought lists, as well as the end of that manipulation.

Sales Rank Express is the brainchild of sales rank addict Aaron Shepard, author and publisher of numerous books, including Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing. "The checker grew out of my own obsession with Amazon," says Shepard. "It helps me follow the details of my books' progress in a way simply not practicable before."

Try Shepard's rank checker at your own peril. Whatever your addiction level, Sales Rank Express is bound to make it worse.

Source: eMediaWire.com