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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I have noticed a number of things when searching for books at Sony.
First, the notify when new books arrive for a particular author doesn't seem to be working. I have yet to be notified even though the authors that I asked about have had new books. I do get the purchase receipts, so I know that my email is correct.
Second, a number of books are misfiled and you don't always get all the books when you do a search. I'm not sure how the website is setup, but more than once, a book has appeared on the new arrivals several days before it shows up on the author's books available list.
Third, I get different results depending on how I search for something. It's hard to put my finger on what's happening, but I've not found a book when I search for a title, but found it when I searched for the author. Very strange.
While the site is fairly quirky, there is no doubt that they have added quite a few books in recent months, especially backlist books. I've been able to find several old favorites as well as pick up a couple of older books that I had heard of, but hadn't read. That's pretty important given the scarcity of new SF books over the last several years (non-romance based werwolf/vampire books that is).
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I've also had problems with their search routine. If you click on Categories, select one, and enter an author's name, for example, you get completely different result from if you go to their "Advanced" Search, enter the author's name and select that category. Go figure. Unfortunately, you have to patient and try several things to make sure that they really
don't have what you want.