![]() ![]() ![]() Estimated print book sales by week, based on the same data as above.Estimated print book sales by US region, pulling data not only from Amazon, but from 75% of book sales nationwide.In fact, you’re welcome to have AuthorCentral accounts in every country where your books are sold, and you might want to, because each country’s AuthorCentral reports only on books sold in that country.Īmazon AuthorCentral (US) allows authors to track: Please note that ANYONE can sign up for an AuthorCentral account with US-based Amazon, regardless of where they live, as long as they have a book available in the US store. If your book achieves Top 10 or Top 100 status in its category, spread that news far and wide! You can use sales rank itself as a marketing tool.You can make an informed decision about switching categories in order to attract the right group of readers to your product page.You’re better able to determine which books need better marketing and can work with your publisher to improve things on that front.Sales rank information can help with marketing because: ![]() Here, I’ll limit my discussion to the US. Amazon stores in each country operate their own associated AmazonCentral platforms, with services varying from country to country. If you’re interested in learning more about what used to be available, you can look at some older versions of this page on the Internet Archive.ĪuthorCentral is a sales tracking and promotional platform open to any author who has books available on Amazon. The only source that remains for non-self-published authors to track their Amazon sales is Amazon itself. All the other services I mentioned in the original article are either defunct or no longer offer sales insights. The leader in tracking, SalesRank Express, and the best free platform for tracking Amazon sales, NovelRank, shut down after Amazon decided in 2018 to no longer allow outside companies to have access to sales data. Note: I originally published this article in April 2017. ![]()
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