Tucked away in the recesses of BookScouter.com there once was a mobile-optimized site found at bookscouter.com. Having rebranded this mobile-optimized version of BookScouter.com with the new BookScouter design, I’d like to re-introduce this tool.

BookScouter Mobile is a lightweight version of BookScouter.com with only the minimum required information for users to make buying decisions on the go. BookScouter Mobile also has the capability to use a smartphone’s camera to scan a book’s ISBN for quick and easy searching while on location at bookstores and other popular scouting locations/events. To take advantage of this feature, users must install the free Pic2Shop app (compatible with all iOS and Android devices).

BookScouter Mobile is not meant to replace the existing iOS and Android BookScouter apps. However, bookscouter.com is a great alternative for users while we reengineer our mobile apps for broader compatibility, optimized use, and performance. Stay tuned for more updates on our mobile apps.

I want to thank you for your continued support while we work to improve BookScouter and its many features. Stay tuned for our 2015 roadmap where we’ll reveal more changes that lie in store for BookScouter.

Cheers,

Dustin Checketts

President

The last time that we redesigned the BookScouter site was clear back in April of 2010. (It was really ugly before that.) We’ve spent the past several months working on the new design and think that the new look is a huge improvement that makes the site look much more modern.  None of the functionality has changed, but you may find some links in slightly different places.  We’ve spent the last week fixing some minor bugs that were introduced with the redesign and listening to your requests for changes based on how you used the site.  We’ve got a few more minor things that we’d like to clean up, but everything should be running pretty well now.

One thing that may not be obvious came from suggestions from users. You said that the pricing information should be moved up on the page so as not to require scrolling to see the prices. We wanted to keep the format as it was for new users, so if you simply sign into your free account, there is now a settingthat says “Hide Featured Vendor, moves pricing table higher on the page, limiting page scrolling, and hides FAQs”. Selecting “Hide” next to this setting will show the book information on the left side of the page and the prices on the right side, further up the page

As always, please feel free to Contact Us if you have any more comments or suggestions. We are also getting more active on Facebook, so you can interact with us and others there as well!

Since its inception, the Bulk Lookup Tool for BookScouter Pro users has had a quirky behavior. If you started to process a second list before the first one was completely finished, the two lists would partially combine. We’ve just released a change that will fix this behavior so that it works as expected. When you upload a list of ISBNs, the resulting screen will display only prices from that list. It no longer combines the prices from multiple lists.

Would you like to gain access to BookScouter’s daily pricing data? BookScouter now has historic data available for purchase. A daily data file contains every price that is shown on the BookScouter.com website.
Contact us about pricing and a sample to try it out!

Each file is gzipped CSV with the following columns:

• Vendor ID
• ISBN
• Price
• Timestamp

Sample Data:
24,0809129795,1.25,2014-08-04 00:00:00
54,0691122946,1.05,2014-08-04 00:00:01
24,0691122946,1.00,2014-08-04 00:00:01
47,1416589228,1.74,2014-08-04 00:00:01
12,1418548200,1.25,2014-08-04 00:00:02
11,1111347174,4.58,2014-08-04 00:00:02
12,1111347174,54.25,2014-08-04 00:00:02
18,1111347174,18.50,2014-08-04 00:00:02
16,1111347174,51.25,2014-08-04 00:00:02

BookScouter was featured in the article, “6 Ways to Earn Money Without Leaving the House” found on ShowbizCheatSheet.com.

We’re happy to announce the third new site that we’ve added this month. BooksCashed.com is the latest addition. This company is based in Atlanta and seems to have some very competitive pricing. Please give them a try if you have the chance, and make sure to leave feedback after you’ve tried them out.