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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I don't think that wading through 300 feeds a day would be an improvement over Amazon, where at least you can search by author or title. With 3000 separate publishers, you'd have to search each publisher's database unless you knew which of the 3000 publishers you wanted.
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The point is that there won't be 3000 publishers who do books that you are interested in. Most people have certain types of books they like, certain genres. For example, I like SF/F, adventure and history, so I'm not likely to be visiting all the romance publishers. How many SF/F publishers are there? Perhaps 3 to 4 major ones and a couple very small ones, certainly no more than 10 or 12. Saying there would be 3000 publishers is a bit like saying there are 300 million people in the US when I'm trying to find Ed Rothschild in Atlanta, Ga. I only have to look in Atlanta, not the entire US.