booklert

Back in February as part of my ongoing investigation into Tales From The Long Tail I wondered whether there was some way of getting a twitter feed of a particular book's Amazon rank. I imagined such a thing being immensely popular with authors, who get such little feedback about how their book's doing.

Well, Adrian immediately went and built such a thing and it's brilliant. It's just finished and launched and it's called Booklert. You can subscribe via twitter or email (depending how often your neuroticism needs feeding) and regularly watch the random progress of your book through the amazon ranks. Or discover that you're being completely trounced by James.

Read more about it here.

Just like bkkeepr, it's exactly the sort of thing a major book business could have thought of, should have thought of, but didn't.

And, as part of the Tales From The Long Tail experiment, I've signed up to sponsor Booklert with EBCB for a bit, so we'll see how that goes too.