A recent article about the working conditions at an Amazon Fulfillment Center has gotten some interesting coverage. There are varying opinions on the slant of the article, but I found some interesting information about the operations and expectations of those employed in these facilities that gives some insight for those sellers who use FBA regularly.

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I’ve had the chance to introduce some significant new features to BookScouter recently and am pretty happy with how things are working. Now I need to figure out what the next step is 🙂 With so many BookScouter users, I want to make sure that we are working on features that will be useful to people so that BookScouter will continue to be the most comprehensive, accurate, and easy to use tool for comparing prices on selling used books.

We’ve put together a short survey that I’m hoping will help us learn and quantify how and why people use the website. We’re interested in learning a bit about your book-selling ventures and what other tools you are using that we might be able to integrate with.

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. Most users should be able to finish it in about five minutes. We’ll send you a free BookScouter.com t-shirt for your time, and you’ll be helping to make sure that BookScouter.com has the best tools for you to use.

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I’ve had a pretty good response to the offerings with BookScouter Pro and am happy to announce that it is now free for non-profit organizations to use. To get that set up, make sure that you have a Free BookScouter.com account, and then Contact Us so that we can work on setting up the free Pro account. We’ll need a copy of a document that verifies your non-profit status.

I’ve had numerous requests from users to show the Amazon Sales Rank and some basic Amazon pricing information on the site. I’m happy to announce that is now possible. You’ll need to put in your Amazon Product Advertising API credentials to make it work. There is a new link for "Manage your Amazon Access Keys" on the screen right after you log in. That screen describes the process and what needs to be done to enter your AWS Access Credentials.

Last week I was able to take place in a 30-minute radio interview for the “Ask Janelle” show on wsRadio.com. We talked about some of the basic BookScouter usage and how eBay and Amazon book sellers can use it to sell some of their books. We also talked about some of the “Pro” features suited toward larger users. You can listen to the show over at wsRadio.com. I first met Janelle at the Amazon Sellers Conference (SCOE) in Seattle in July. She is a popular and well respected radio host and runs a bunch of classes and training programs to help sellers optimize their online sales through eBay, Amazon, and on the Internet in general. She is also behind the OSI Rock Stars program and training material.