Amazon Kindle discussion

Does anyone know of an alternative price tracker to eReaderIQ? I have used and recommended it for years since seeing the site mentioned on the former Amazon forums but it no longer checks prices in a timely manner. On the first page of my notifications, 16 haven't been checked in a day, 17 in two days, and 2 in three days. This has been an ongoing problem a long time. I really liked eReaderIQ before.

So, do any of you folks know of other sites to track specific Kindle book price drops? TIA

it was the best one, but Amazon keeps changing their site so it doesn't work well with ereaderiq and other price checking sites. At one time Amazon removed them from the affiliates program so they ceased making any money from the free service they were offering.

Bookbub reports price drops, but it's not a site where you put in your list like ereaderiq and just see those, you see all the drops

KindleNationDaily has one as well

Hmm. I get about a dozen notifications every day. Only rarely is the book no longer on sale.

And when I do my free book lists, only rarely do I find a book there that eReaderIQ hasn't already notified me of...

I found a number of mentioned services when I look this up on Google:

kindle book price tracker

However, I've not tried any of them, so can't say whether they are good alternatives or not...

readforme wrote: "So, do any of you folks know of other sites to track specific Kindle book price drops?"

I’ve noticed similar issues lately. If I hadn’t already been in the habit of checking the daily Kindle deals on Amazon each morning, I would have missed a few price drops on my eReaderIQ watch list. Sometimes I received the eReaderIQ e-mail a day or two after the prices had already increased back up to their normal amounts.

If you don’t mind a slightly more manual process, one option might be to use Amazon’s wish list process. On the product page, below the price and free sample boxes on the right, there’s an “Add to List” option. On some product pages, it shows up to the left a bit below the cover image. The lists can be sorted by price, so you could check it once a day and look at the lowest-priced items to see if any have dropped to a level you’re willing to pay. You have to re-sort it each time you access it; it doesn’t stay sorted by price.

You can set up different lists, so you could have a separate list just for Kindle books you want to track. The list settings allow you to choose your default list so that you can just click “Add to List” and it will go to that list by default. There’s also an option in the settings to have it automatically remove the item from your list if you purchase it; I think that was turned on my default. It’s not as nice as having eReaderIQ automatically send e-mails when prices drop below a certain amount, but it does have the advantage of being Amazon-based so that it’s less likely to break or vanish unexpectedly if Amazon changes their APIs or policies.

I’ve only recently started setting up one of these myself and playing around with it, so I don’t have a lot of experience with them. There could be less-obvious downsides or hiccups that I haven’t encountered yet, if having to check manually isn't already a deal breaker.

and even better, often Amazon will send you an email saying something like:

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

Thank you for adding Bone By Bone (A Mallory Novel Book 11) to your Wish List. We have applied a $5 Kindle book credit to your account to use on this book.

You can claim this credit within 7 days from when it is applied to your account.

I bought it

Thank you all for the feedback and suggestions. CBR, I haven't heard of KindleNationDaily so will check that out. YouKneeK, I was glad when Amazon FINALLY restored the ability to sort prices from low-high (although bringing back the price drop filter would have been even better). I have used that in conjunction with Ctrl-F to find the word "dropped." Looks like I might have to start doing that again, but it doesn't sort my entire list every time since there have been a few that didn't come up in order. I have several extremely long ones specifically for Kindle books.

Randy, the problem is that if a book drops to the price you want but eReaderIQ doesn't check it before the sale ends, you won't get a notification. Over the years I've discovered there are books that go on sale for one day that are not on the daily deals page. Then again, I have a LOT of books on my wish lists and YMMV.

readforme wrote: "I was glad when Amazon FINALLY restored the ability to sort prices from low-high (although bringing back the price drop filter would have been even better)."

There is still a URL search parameter that restricts prices. They just no longer have access to it from their web pages.

http://ogres-crypt.com/Kindle/Free-Sc...

However, I have noticed books in those searches with prices. But, oddly enough, sorting by price doesn't put them at the top or bottom of the search results. It's like Amazon thinks they ARE free books, even though they have a price.

readforme wrote: "Then again, I have a LOT of books on my wish lists and YMMV."

I am currently tracking prices on 884 authors and 1,135 books on eReaderIQ... :)