# Is there a way to be alerted when a Kindle title goes on sale?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-be-alerted-when-a-kindle-title-goes-on-sale/827412>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 8, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-be-alerted-when-a-kindle-title-goes-on-sale/827412 "2019-01-08T16:54:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-be-alerted-when-a-kindle-title-goes-on-sale/827412/1 "2019-01-08T16:54:55Z")

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I keep a ton of stuff in my shopping cart on Amazon so I can see easily when their price drops. I would like to do the same with Kindle titles but you can’t. Is there a way either on Amazon itself or somewhere else to get a notification when a title drops in price?

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**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-be-alerted-when-a-kindle-title-goes-on-sale/827412/2 "2019-01-08T17:34:37Z")

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I’ve gotten emails from Amazon when Kindle books on my wishlist go on sale. I don’t recall if it’s all the time or just on occasion, but I’ve gotten a few.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-be-alerted-when-a-kindle-title-goes-on-sale/827412/3 "2019-01-08T18:09:15Z")

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Negative news: I use [camelcamelcamel](https://camelcamelcamel.com/) to track Amazon products. Put in a Kindle edition search and they came back saying that Amazon doesn’t let them track Kindle Edition products. ☹

So outside tracking sites in general are probably a “no”.

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-be-alerted-when-a-kindle-title-goes-on-sale/827412/4 "2019-01-08T18:24:58Z")

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There’s [Bookbub](https://www.bookbub.com/welcome); a site where you can set up your favorite authors and they’ll send you an email if and when they go on sale.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-be-alerted-when-a-kindle-title-goes-on-sale/827412/5 "2019-01-10T02:13:44Z")

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Track price drops with [ereader iq](https://www.ereaderiq.com). You need to put the books in individually but they email when the price reaches your threshold, just like camel camel camel does everything else.