Let's not get crazy here. There's nothing wrong with offering recommendations or suggestions for other books you might want to read. They usually aren't very good suggestions for most people, but some people that buy a lot of a specific type of book from kobobooks might find it useful. It's a little cheesy to copy competitors like the Nook Simple Touch and put the recommendations on the home screen, but the layout change itself is not the problem. The problem is the lack of flexibility to put other books lists on that bottom bar and have it stick, to customize the recommendations, or to remove that bottom bar entirely if you prefer the old layout.
So here's my suggestions to Kobo:
- Offer the option to remove the bottom bar entirely and go back to the old layout
- Make sure that alternative list choices for the bottom bar stick through a sync and don't revert to Recommendations
- Offer the option (in your Kobo account) to customize those recommendations, e.g., to watch for new books by specific authors, or in specific series
Last edited by FJames; 01-10-2012 at 11:20 AM.
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