After several months of intense development, I’m happy to finally announce some of the most significant changes to BookScouter ever. These new features are developed for professional book resellers who have a lot of books for sale on sites like Amazon. You sellers are likely already using BookScouter for a small portion of your inventory, but these new features will allow you to more easily integrate selling to buyback companies into your existing day-to-day operations.

• Bulk Price Lookups – Instead of looking up books individually, you can upload a list and view all of the pricing information on one screen. Learn More
• Notifications – Upload a list of ISBNs and minimum prices, or use an Amazon-based report, and receive email notifications when a buyback company is purchasing your book for the price that you specify. Learn More
• Buyback Tracking – Instead of tracking buyback transactions manually via spreadsheets and manual methods, you can tie in your email account and have BookScouter read all of the transaction information into a central location. Automatically track orders and when they were created, received, and paid Learn More

I’ve been using these features myself over the past few months and am excited to make them available now to other people. You can view screenshots and read more information about these features at http://bookscouter.com/pro. All of these new features will be available for a monthly subscription of $29.99, and you’ll have one month free to try them out.

As always, I’m looking forward to hearing your feedback and comments. I believe that everything should be working well, but as with any new feature, I’ll be keeping a close eye on the site and paying attention to try and identify any bugs or errors that might pop up when others start using them.

Thanks,
Brandon Checketts
BookScouter.com

BookScouter has launched a bookmark design contest over at 99Designs.com. If you are a graphic designer or know of one, please send them over to create a design. The winner will receive a $200 reward and will have their design distributed across the country!

For anybody who isn’t aware, PaperbackSwap.com is a really great site that you can use to swap books with other people around the country, and around the world. After posting your books, other people can request the books from you, and you pay to ship them off. You receive a credit, and can then request books from other users in the same way. Essentially, you can trade out books for just the cost of media-mail postage.

A couple of years ago, I created a tool that would look up the value of your PaperbackSwap.com bookshelf. I’m not sure if they perhaps changed something, or maybe it never completely worked in the first place, but it was only looking at the first 10 books on your bookshelf, which obviously is not very useful.

I’ve just fixed the tool so that it goes 100 books at a time through all of the books on your PBS Bookshelf. This should make it easy for you to evaluate the value of the books that you have listed on PaperBack Swap to make sure that you aren’t trading any valuable books away for free.