If you are a reader and love to buy books and novels of your favorite authors as soon as they are out then you would definitely wish to get the latest update about it. ?

Well, Amazon has a simple feature that can help you in your quest.

Track Upcoming Book Releases

Open the book search page at Amazon.com and type the name of your favorite author in the “Author” field. You can search for the upcoming books by inserting keywords or the name of the publisher. Scroll to the “publication date” option and fill some date that is yet to come.

Press enter and you will get to see is a list of all related book titles that are in the release line. For example, here’s a list of all the Dummies series and upcoming O’Reilly books, while this one is a list of books around Google Chrome OS – the software is yet to be launched but these books are due for release in the month of November 2010.

This alternative to find books by publication date is useful for keeping a track on your favorite authors as well as for your current purchases. Just type the title of a book you wish to buy and set the publication date to say next week or month and press enter – you’ll straight away know if the next version of that book is about to come or not and you may postpone your purchase accordingly.