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Still missing several books by authors I tried. I searched for ZA Maxfield; got no hits; searched for Z.A. Maxfield & got search results. (Author is listed both ways on various sites.) The book listing is missing several books: St. Nachos, Blue Fire, All Stirred up.
Okay, ZA Maxfield is in an odd field & writes for indie publishing houses; maybe not too surprising that some of those works don't show up. (However, the Kindle versions don't show up on several of them, just Sony.)
I decide to search for another author, one whom I know has regular sales & discounts at her site: Diane Duane. The results are missing some books (Stealing the Elf-King's Roses was the one I looked for), which is available in the Kindle store for $10, and available as the "author's cut" on her site for $6.
Two results with missing data for authors I care about would put this in "don't bother using this site." (Would, rather than does, because as far as I can tell, the searches only turn up books on DRM'd sites or places like B&N that won't say whether a book is DRM'd. So I wouldn't be buying from them anyway.)
I'd love to know if a book has a different price at Fictionwise, Smashwords, AllRomanceEbooks, or the publisher's site; some books are in all of those stores--and the books that are, aren't subject to weird agency "must price the same in all stores" restrictions. With agency pricing, best-price-search engines are a lot less important; it's the indie titles that customers need help finding when they're bargain-hunting.
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