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Steve Weber
TitleZ
www.TitleZ.com allows users to instantly retrieve historic and
current Amazon rankings and create printable reports with 7-day, 30-
day, 90-day, and lifetime averages. This allows you to see how book topic
areas or individual titles perform over time relative to others.
TitleZ is a handy tool for evaluating book topic ideas because you
can gauge the potential audience for a given topic or title. Using TitleZ
you can easily assemble a list of related books with their historical sales
rankings and descriptions. This indicates whether other books on the
topic have succeeded or failed, and may show where opportunities exist
or where markets are saturated.
TitleZ also provides pricing information on competitive titles,
helping you determine the right price for your book. You can also track
your book’s performance over time to assess the effect of promotional
efforts and marketing programs.
Affiliate partnerships
Once your book achieves a modest Amazon Sales Rank, you’ll have
clout outside Amazon too. For example, you can pursue affiliate sales on
Web sites that feature content related to your book. Many sites are
affiliates of Amazon or BarnesAndNoble.com and have a “Bookshelf”
page. Here’s an example of a bookshelf page, with affiliate links to books
in the column on the right:
quickbooks.phtml
If your book about wine was featured here, you’d undoubtedly get
extra book sales from visitors who noticed the link to your book on
Amazon. Likewise, the owner of this Web site would be pleased to
feature your book here because he or she would be raking in more
affiliate commissions on sales of your book. So don’t sit back and hope
that the site owner discovers your book and adds it to the Bookshelf
page—suggest it yourself. Point out that your book fits perfectly with the
content of the site and will generate strong affiliate revenue based on its
Amazon Sales Rank.
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