Aaron Shepard
By Krissy Hawkins, Stephens Press
Need to check Amazon sales rankings? Research similar titles? Or just navigate the many features of Amazon? Whether you are a publishing house, self-publisher, author, or aspiring writer Sales Rank Express (salesrankexpress.com) is a useful key. What began as a private means for checking sales ranks of books developed into a free, multi-purpose guide for Amazon analysis and utilization. So much so that its creator, Aaron Shepard, has dubbed the tool a “Swiss Army knife for authors and publishers aiming at Amazon.” Many of the Sales Rank Express features offer a more versatile view of Amazon information. For instance, currently sales ranking for books on Amazon are revised every hour, giving this function a very short memory and often reporting only extremes in ranking, as opposed to a steady reading. With Sales Rank Express you can look up a book as well as its top ten “pairings” – the titles used by Amazon for its “Also Bought” listings – with their sales ranks, giving you a quick run-down of the most popular titles in that field.
A beta testing ranking program can also be found at titlez.com . It catalogs sales rankings at Amazon over time. Sometimes useful in certain situations.