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Originally Posted by Assassin
I'm curious Rhadin, what additional filtering categories at Smashwords would make it easier for you to find the books you are searching for?
And to others who want to comment, what other search categories do you need?
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- Sort by price. Either ascending/descending, or (better) by price range: "show me everything between $2.00 and $5.00." Or "Everything under $3."
- Sort by length, not just "under/over 25k words."
- Better genre sorting--expandable sub-genres, ability to shift genres without going back to the top menu.
- Better author sorting--not alpha by first name.
- Title sorting, esp. for grouping into series. (Some way for authors to mark series would be nice.)
- Language filters.
- Opposite-of-prude filter: only show me stuff tagged 17+
- Sort by (or at least show on listings) sample percentage.
- Sort by--or have a spot to indicate--original ebook publication, or formerly published.
- Separate/sort by self-published vs publishing company.
Also:
LIBRARY SORTING. Ability to tag the free books as read/not-read; ability to show ratings or notes or sort by genre or author or reviewed-or-not or SOMETHING other than time added to library. The current list-only format is fine if there's a dozen books involved. With over 50, it's a bit unwieldy. At 200, it'd be entirely useless.
I wrote a blog post a while back about
things I want from Smashwords.
If I could sort for "$3 or less, science fiction or fantasy, more than 50k words, with at least 20% sample," I'd buy more ebooks instead of clicking around the most-recent-releases list trying to find things I'd like.
Being able to sort for "8-20k words, less than $2, has sample" would encourage me to look at more of the short stories.