Know When Your Book Sells!
We offer an app for authors that sends you an email, a text message, or both every hour that Amazon sells one or more of your books. It's a lot of fun, yes, but it's also a great way to get the feedback you need for marketing and promotional activities!
How does this work?
Amazon adjusts the sales rank of every product in its online catalogue once each hour. We automatically monitor your book's sales rank each hour and send you a message, directly to your cell phone or computer (or both), whenever Amazon reports an improved sales rank. This lets you know that your book sold one or more copies during that hour.
How much does this service cost?
$10 to try it out for one month, $25 for three months, or $50 for a full year. Also, as a special offer, consider enrolling in EJ's all day "Amazon Tools for Authors" training seminar on September 24th, in Denver, Colorado, and receive a full year of this service at no charge. This service fits perfectly with the dozens of tips, tricks, and techniques you'll learn about for marketing your book. Read all about this seminar at ForAuthorsOnly.com.
Who are we?
We are publishers of 200+ books, and we both started out as authors, helping Microsoft Press, O'Reilly Media, and Books To Believe In to sell over 100,000 of our own books. Learn more about EJ Thornton and John Clark Craig at Amazon's author pages. EJ's popular online classes at Getting-Published.com have helped many authors to save money and time with editors, printers, publishers, illustrators, and other publishing service providers. EJ also created the very popular annual Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit™ event.
Send us information about your book
to see if it is eligible for this service
"But wait there's more!"
As a no-charge bonus, with each book sale notification we will also tweet to the world about it with a link to your book's page on Amazon.com. This technique alone has increased our author's book sales significantly, and it keeps sales momentum going strong!
Testimonials...
"Everytime I get one of these e-mails, it just makes my day!"
Sue Scudder
(The Voice Across the Veil)
speakingwiththespirits.com
"Getting these e-mails is really fun, and I can definitely tell when my marketing efforts are paying off - and when they're not..."
Kristine Turner
(Mommy and Daddy are getting divorced)
divorceadviceforchildren.com
"Getting these e-mails has been really interesting... I can see the trends moving to Kindle away from printed books. I sell about 4 Kindles to every one of my printed books every day. I know now where to put my efforts so that I get the greatest returns."
Othniel Seiden
(Colorado's most prolific writer)
BoomerBookSeries.com
"I love getting these notifications when my books sell. If I can, I immediately check out my book's page to see what category (if any) that I'm listed in the top 100. Believe-you-me, I go tweet about it and post it on facebook. I keep the momentum alive, because I can so quickly react to a sales event on Amazon. Such a great service! Every author needs this!"
Sparkle Phillips
(Finding Your Fortune & Finding Your Soul Mate)
greatrelationshipbooks.com
"I created an automated sales rank notification system several years ago, to help us keep up to speed on our book sales, both for us personally and for other authors published here at Books To Believe In. We wanted to know immediately if there was a sales event, so we could get the feedback needed to help amplify any sales campaigns, publicity, or other current events we, or our authors were doing. We still use this system daily, and it's proven to be a great tool for book marketing..." (full article)
John Clark Craig & EJ Thornton - Authors and Publishers
It looks like fun, but is it useful?
If you are an author, having an automated system act as a watch dog to let you know about sales activity is a beneficial tool you should consider. It’s very fun to receive the e-mails or text messages, AND more importantly, it is powerful to be able to leverage near-real-time results for your sales or social media campaign efforts. It is a tool that will not only notify you of sales, it will help you generate more sales too!