The AuthorScore Standard
A published, transparent method for measuring how indexed and recommendable a book is across the AI platforms readers now ask. No black box. No magic. No hype.
Five dimensions. One hundred points.
How clearly your book’s title, hook, metadata, retailer pages, and author site communicate what the book is — to humans and to AI.
Whether your book has a sticky, memorable angle that AI systems can attach to a reader’s query.
Earned media, indexed coverage, and reputable mentions. This is the heaviest lever — citations are what AI weighs most.
Whether the public information about your book is structured in a way AI can confidently quote and recommend.
Reviews, ratings, communities, and the steady, real-world signals that tell AI your book is worth surfacing.
The Bands
Earns the Certified seal.
AI can find it; recommendation is inconsistent.
Foundations are forming; recommendation is rare.
AI can’t reliably surface this book yet.
Integrity Rules
- ✦Earned, not bought. Citations and reviews counted toward your score must be real and public — no paid placements that pretend to be editorial.
- ✦Published methodology. The dimensions and weights on this page are the same ones we use. You can audit how you got your number.
- ✦Certified seal is earned. Only books scoring 80 or above may display the AuthorScore Certified seal. Below 80, no seal. Period.
The Certified Seal
Awarded only to books scoring 80 or above. It signals to readers — and increasingly to the systems they ask — that this title has earned its place on the new bookshelf.