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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Maybe I am a retro-grouch on this, but I for one sincerely hope nothing like this ever exists for books. Books might be the one aspect of entertainment that isn't market analyzed to death. In music, I wouldn't be surprised at all if some music execs are going to start planning on exploiting Pandora's algorithms to increase their hit count. We know that movies and TV are often altered to meet the desires of test audiences, even if, in the long run, it turns out to be the wrong decision.
With writing, you never know how you will react to a book until you pick it up. I like it that way.
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Bill
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Actually, that's kinda not true. In the publishing world, books are hyper analyzed for marketing characteristics, and only those that meet those characteristics get pushed in a given quarter. Big publishers have EXACTLY formulated metrics that each book must get, and test audiences are used.
Amazon also uses its sample to purchase ratios and information pieces as a product for publishers to purchase, so does Google, and I suspect Apple will too.
In fact, books have been doing this for a long time.. even going back to the "serials" that Charles Dickens and his like published.. they would be told by the magazine publisher "Our readers say more of this, less of that, etc"
Just because we don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there
