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Interesting idea, but I can't get round the figures I've seen in various places that there are over 200000 new books published in the US alone (some people are saying nearly 300000), not to mention Canada, OZ, NZ, UK, India etc for English language titles. If we assume they're all novels, and divide them into say 30 genres, and you'd have a job to find 30, that means there are going to be 6667 new novels in each genre (assuming even distribution - it's worse in some genres if distribution is not even) and that is nearly 20 new 2500 word shorts a day. In other words you're going to be reading a short novel, 125 pages, each day just to get through the samples.
That's the problem all we indie publishers have to overcome: making a wave in a sea of 200000 new books a year.
But your idea might be of some help. Why not give it a shot? Especially if you can find a good way to increase the number of genres in order to minimise the number of hits in each genre.
And another thing: the number of new books is much smaller in foreign languages. There you could well have a market, even if you increase the sample length to 5000 words.
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