Death of NovelRank

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Death of NovelRank Sept 3, 2018 16:38:05 GMT K'Sennia Visitor likes this

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Post by downtown on Sept 3, 2018 16:38:05 GMT

Looks like NovelRank is gonezo.

From the site:

On August 21st, Amazon decided that after 9 years, without warning, NovelRank violated their Terms of Use. On August 31st they followed up all appeals by closing the final domain: Amazon.com, effectively killing NovelRank.

Please export any data you want to keep as soon as possible.

If any publisher or other entity is interested in purchasing the valuable NovelRank domain please email me a reasonable offer: mlurig@novelrank.com.

I was NovelRank's biggest fan. I made it for authors like me; who barely sold any books, but it still felt good to know that someone found your writing valuable. It grew to be valuable to so many others. I'm sorry this has happened and I have to now focus on my new wife (married for the 1st time Aug 3rd) and what my future can be now that my income is gone.

Regretfully,
Mario Lurig
Founder, Developer, Advocate: NovelRank.com

I'm surprised how little I'm seeing about this on message boards. Is this not used as widely as I thought?

prolificwriter Senior Member Posts: 252	Death of NovelRank Sept 3, 2018 16:58:16 GMT maowmaow and downtown like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by prolificwriter on Sept 3, 2018 16:58:16 GMT I use Sales Rank Express. A lot of countries are gone, but it still seems to be chugging along. I hope that doesn’t change!

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Death of NovelRank Sept 3, 2018 17:37:31 GMT polydactylcat and downtown like this

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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Sept 3, 2018 17:37:31 GMT

Yeah, I've never used novel rank. I occasionally use sales rank express. Hope amazon doesn't decide to go after them next. If amazon is deciding they don't want any info about amazon being available from anyone but them, a lot of other related sites could be next. Plus, it's almost always sad when small business are crushed by soulless corporations. Thanks for sharing, downtown.

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Death of NovelRank Sept 3, 2018 18:08:33 GMT K'Sennia Visitor and prolificwriter like this

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Post by downtown on Sept 3, 2018 18:08:33 GMT

Sept 3, 2018 17:37:31 GMT K'Sennia Visitor said:

Yeah, I've never used novel rank. I occasionally use sales rank express. Hope amazon doesn't decide to go after them next. If amazon is deciding they don't want any info about amazon being available from anyone but them, a lot of other related sites could be next. Plus, it's almost always sad when small business are crushed by soulless corporations. Thanks for sharing, downtown .

Yeah, SRE has been hit as well, but only some of their data is gone.

I think you'll definitely see other data companies get cut off in the next few weeks/months/whatever. Amazon has been cutting back on API usage for a while and a lot of these companies only cost AZ money, so it makes sense they're starting to cut them off.

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