titlez - A great way to track books

Bo Sullivan · Apr 19, 2007

Hi,

I just wanted to share that titlez or TitleZ is a great way to track sales ranks with a graph included. If you have Amazon Shorts you can add new titles all the time and keep a track of what the sales ranks are with Amazon, and once you enter a new title the engine starts to track that ISBN within a day or two. TitleZ appear to only focus on Amazon.com and no other tracking engine though, so it is as well to bear that in mind when reckoning up your own projected sales.

You can do research on there for any book which has an ISBN and for this reason I find it very helpful.

Barbara

Bo Sullivan · Apr 19, 2007

You can track anything from Thomas Hardy to Shakespeare, from Dan Brown to anyone who has ever written a book. Give it a try. I am sure you will find it an exciting experience.

Barbara

HapiSofi · Apr 19, 2007

The problem is that tracking your Amazon Sales Rank is only slightly more accurate than reading tea leaves. As Yog explains it, the number of digits in your ASR shows whether your cousins and your mom's bridge club bought your book, or whether only immediate family bought it. Further up the scale, the number of digits roughly indicates whether you're selling one copy of your book every year, every month, or every day. But the little day to day fluctuations? Those are Brownian motion. They're noise.

James D. Macdonald · Apr 19, 2007

http://www.titlez.com/

This looks very similar to http://charteo.us/
which itself is similar to the late lamented JungleScan, which was the re-named AmazonScan (after Amazon objected to trademark infringement).

I'm told there was a widget you could put in your Windows system tray that would keep a running display of your Amazon sales rank.

This is fun, in a time-wasting kinda way, but won't sell any books.

Kristin Landon · Apr 19, 2007

I have seen what I know to be a single preorder bump my book from 1.9 millionth (it hasn't been published yet and no one had preordered it in weeks) to the 70,000s. It looks to me like a scale based on sales per time period, not total sales. Tea leaves, as HapiSofi says. If Aunt Bridget buys four copies at once, your sales go through the roof. For a few hours. :tongue

James D. Macdonald · Apr 19, 2007

Pulishers aren't going to use this service. They subscribe to Nielsen BookScan.

Kristin Landon · Apr 19, 2007

I can't imagine that this is intended to be anything but a fun little game for authors. As you say, it won't sell any books.

titlez - A great way to track books

Bo Sullivan

Bo Sullivan

HapiSofi

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James D. Macdonald

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Kristin Landon

James D. Macdonald

Your Genial Uncle

Kristin Landon