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Description from extension meta
Get notifications on price changes and new reviews for Amazon books
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ReaderScout notifies you when Amazon books get new reviews or change in price. In addition, ReaderScout displays the follower count of an author as well as the current ABSR of each book. Every twenty four hours, ReaderScout checks for updates on Amazon - and adds an alert to your toolbar in Chrome if a change is found.
With Reader Scout, you:
- Always know the number of followers on Amazon
- Know the ABSR of all tracked books
- Save time from regularly checking books
- Notice changes quickly so you can take the necessary action
- Don’t miss out on price opportunities
- Can react to negative reviews
- See new positive reviews as they arrive in the store
For help getting Reader Scout set up, watch our tutorial here: https://readerscout.com/getting_started/
Reader Scout also helps authors fight back against Amazon spammers, who can hijack books and change the price. You can read more about how that particular spam occurs here: https://kindlepreneur.com/amazon-printing-scams/
Reader Scout Limitations:
Reader Scout is limited to 50 books per author for the time being because the more users and books we have, the higher the operational costs will go up. However, it is our goal to keep this Reader Scout free - this way, more authors will be able to use it and see if/when they are scammed.
The faster an author picks up on scammers, the sooner they can stop them, and thus the less profitable it becomes for the scammers. If this happens enough, scammers will give up. By limiting to 5 books, we are able to serve more authors in this fight against spammers.
At the moment, Reader Scout is only available for Amazon US. We're investigating how to make it available for international markets, but wanted to make Reader Scout available as fast as possible to help authors fight against spammers. Stay tuned... we're excited to hopefully offer international options in the future.
If you are in another market besides the United States, and want to use ReaderScout, send us an email.
Latest reviews
- (2024-02-19) ian Feldman: Reader Scout keeps me updated with changes to prices and reviews-two things near and dear to the heart of any author. It's also set it and forget it. Just add your books and away it goes. Great tool for the busy author.
- (2023-12-19) Morgan Delaney: Insanely useful and easy to use to track your books, Amazon followers and any changes!
- (2023-12-17) Denise Haschka: Love it! It keeps me motivated and uplifts me when I see a new follower or a positive review. Thank you!
- (2023-11-22) Elisabetta Petroni: Useful "at a glance" !!
- (2023-11-16) Denise Balzan-Sheaves: This is an excellent tool and so easy to install and use.
- (2023-11-13) Rich Samuels: Highly recommended—very helpful!
- (2023-10-24) christy smith: A wonderful product -- thank goodness for tools that make life easier!
- (2023-10-06) Grap: Love this product, an easy tool to install and simple to use. Love that it warns me of changes in pricing and when reviews are posted. Excellent tool.
- (2023-09-14) Ewe S: Another great tool from Kindlepreneur!
- (2023-09-14) Donna McDonald: Dave and his team come up with the best programs to help authors. I send author friends here all the time. Every tool Dave has created works and works well. I used his QR code generator this morning to make a code to add to a flyer for a book signing. I can't say enough good things about the Kindlepreneur crew.
- (2023-09-13) Christian Camacho: Great app. Tons of support. Solid updates. Very handy.
- (2023-09-08) Victoria Smith: Glad to have this handy tool to keep me informed of what's going on with my books. I love this and easy to install and it's so helpful. Every author needs this protection working for you daily. Victoria Smith
- (2023-09-01) Halina Goldstein: I have several books on Amazon and keeping an eye on them and their pricing is not something I ever get to do manually. With this extension, I can immediately see whenever a change is there, and where exactly. It couldn't be easier. Thank you Kindlepreneur for yet another super helpful tool!
- (2023-08-31) Adrian Spalding : Author: Handy little add-on for Chrome. But as it only uses the US Amazon store, for me in the UK where most of my activity occurs, it is not as useful as it could be.
- (2023-08-30) Do Dah: This extension does not provide useful information because nearly every day I get a NEW notification about one of my books that the price and rating have changed. However, they have not. At all. And, interestingly, it appears to be going down my book list in order. Odd, unless the goal of the extension is to make you click to view the ads to purchase the company's paid software, in which case, it is probably meeting the company's goals in selling you things. I already own their other software, which I do find helpful, but this extension is now gone.
- (2023-08-24) Katrina Jack: Excellent and very useful tool.
- (2023-08-21) Ray Croke: Useful tool for tracking your books. Notifications helps you become aware of changes instantly rather than days later.
- (2023-08-20) Jamie Tremain: So far - So good I added this extension yesterday and this morning rec'd a notification about a change in one of my books. I'd never have known about the change otherwise. Saves me from having to remember to check each and every one of my books currently listed on Amazon, on a regular basis. Who has time? Happy with it so far!
- (2023-08-19) Kathy Haan: There are a few things that prevent me from rating this higher. First, I want to be able to toggle review checks off. I don't read my reviews, and don't want to get notified every time there are new ones. Second, it's kind of slow. Third, sometimes it says there's something new when there isn't any change.
- (2023-08-19) Angel Leya: This is a fantastic free tool that makes keeping track of my books on Amazon a little easier. Thanks!
- (2023-08-18) Katie McCann: Easy to use and very valuable! Highly recommend!
- (2023-08-17) Lynda French: Does a great job! thank you for providing this.
- (2023-08-10) Antoinette McCormick: Reader Scout is easy to use and provides some very useful information. I highly recommend it.
- (2023-07-29) Dale L. Roberts: This tool saves me a few clicks and time scouring all my book's product pages for changes in pricing or additional reviews. The additional feature of sharing the author's follower count is a nice touch that'll save me a few clicks instead of having to go directly to Amazon Author Central. Great tool! Well worth it for free.
- (2023-07-22) A. Graphy: Amazon randomly selects books to put on sale and by the time I post and ad, the sale is over. This tool is awesome as it alerts me to changes in price and ratings, allowing me to advertise effectively
- (2023-07-22) MIDLIFE CRISIS: I love how it works but it only tracks 5 books even though the description says it will track 50. So, the misleading there was a sore disappointment. I understand that the more books the heavier the load (and costs) and I understand wanting to keep it free. But perhaps a hybred? X number for free and ability to track more with a monthly upgrade to pay for the extra costs? I would subscribe to be able to track more than just 5 books since it has already notified me of an unusual price change for my best selling book, just saying.
- (2023-07-22) Lea Carter: I just downloaded it today and it keeps going off, but if anything has changed, I can't tell. So, for me, that makes it difficult to use.
- (2023-07-19) Shelley Atkinson: Info I need at my fingertips without having to look it up. Great way to stay up on the reviews that are so important. Thanks Dave for providing this!
- (2023-07-10) Indiepreneur: Another awesome product from kindlepreneur!
- (2023-06-22) Robert A Webster: Another great handy and helpful tool from Dave Kindlepreneur.
- (2023-06-16) Kim T. S.: I appreciate how Dave and the Kindlepreneur team are so generous with their free tips and programs. This extension is so cool! One thing to note for improvement-- sometimes the "new" alert keeps popping up a few minutes after I just checked and viewed the changes/notifications. It bothers me, so I have to keep clicking it so the "new" tag goes away lol.
- (2023-06-02) April Bly: The notification page of ReaderScout shows all reviews, page by page, with multiple reviews on a page. Very happy to able to do this with a single click!
- (2023-06-01) Daniel Damkoehler: These guys deliver hit after hit! Well worth the download. This will become a regular part of my author data and pub world monitoring.
- (2023-05-31) Jennifer Cary: So helpful to keep up to date with even the smallest changes.
- (2023-05-29) Trisha Messmer: Another great (free) tool for authors. I love the new update that displays the number of followers. It's like one stop shopping for books. Simple and easy to use.
- (2023-05-26) Lisa Miller: I like this tool. It is nifty.
- (2023-05-19) Richard Skorupski: Once again, Dave and his friends hit this one out of the park! I wanted to wait for the app to flag a change before posting a review. This thing works exactly as advertised. Today I got a "NEW" flag on the icon; sure enough, Amazon jinked one of my prices. I go to this app now before going to my Author Central page. It gives me a better nutshell of prices, follows, and reviews. Thanks, Dave, and company!
- (2023-05-19) Rob Swanson: Like everything from Dave, this is very helpful, especially since the update. Amazon likes to play chess with my book prices. Handy not having to look on Amazon at all of them.
- (2023-05-14) Al D.: So far I have found it impossible to find after downloading, much less to open. It doesn't show up on the top bar or under the puzzle piece. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a glitch? Thanks in advance. Al
- (2023-05-12) V.P. Nightshade (Author): I really like this little tool! It is so helpful for helping me keep track of not only the prices of my books but new reviews as well. It is even better now that we can easily keep track of follows on our Amazon Author page.
- (2023-05-12) Art Saborio: I really like this. It really works well and keeps me abreast of changes when they happen.
- (2023-05-12) Emily Grabatin: Reader Scout is a relief and a convenient way to keep track of my book pricing and reviews -- because I usually forget!
- (2023-05-12) Carol Van Natta: This app helps independent authors like me keep track of price changes and new reviews of their books on Amazon. It's a very handy way to check that evildoers aren't messing with your books. ReaderScout is from the creators of Publisher Rocket, an indispensable tool for indie authors to choose categories and keywords for their books.
- (2023-05-12) Kyla Caspersen: I really like Reader Scout. It's easy to navigate and use and is very helpful in keeping me connected with my Amazon author profile. I didn't even know I had people following me. :)
- (2023-05-10) Christine Keleny: Really like how ReaderScout helps me keep track of my many books pn amazon automatically. Also really appreciate the upgrade so now all my books can be listed! And it's FREE! Thanks Dave C! (creator)
- (2023-05-09) Ligaya Lowe: I found it easy to use and the updates have gotten faster. I'm very happy with it.
- (2023-05-07) Raymond M Hall: Looking forward to the international version for Australia. It is still good to get a regular update of followers on Amazon. Very quick and easy to install.
- (2023-05-04) Jerry Furnell: Where are the features? I see my name, my books and nothing else. Settings button goes nowhere, and what settings there are seem to be missing the ones I went looking for. Like where are the followers? If none - it should say none. Where is the version update button? So much time wasted trying to figure it out.
- (2023-05-04) Kris Moller: Dave and The Team, this is really a great plug-in. I am amazed at the information that I have at my fingertips so quickly. I have also been a Rocket user for a few years now and even though I still have to look around a bit, I always find what I am looking for - and more! And Dave, just a "personal" note: Thank you for always responding to my emails - and so quickly. Cheers. Kris Moller (Australia)
- (2023-05-04) Sarah Howley: The old version was good, the latest update is fabulous! Great to track any changes for piracy but also to keep up-to-date on new reviews. Perfect for every author!