Ask HN: Know of a service to notify of new books by author?
I'm looking for a service that will notify me via email when an author I like has a new book out. Ideally this would be hooked into Amazon since I get all my books through there but I don't think they have this. Right now I accomplish this by continually polling Amazon's author pages or by signing up to the individual author's email newsletters.
If this doesn't already exist, any idea where I might get the data to build something simple? Some sort of publisher/bookseller data dump, or, even better, API service... I doubt Amazon would appreciate me scraping their site for the info. I'm pretty sure Amazon recommendation service does this. Or you could login to your account to tweak it show this happens.