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Originally Posted by LovesMacs
1. At present, Amazon has no need to spend time and money implementing this when its potential return on investment is questionable.
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Amazon would make more money from me because I spend less time there than I otherwise would. Weeding out the romance books was wasting my time.
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2. More problematic is how books are classified in the first place. I'm speculating here, but I strongly suspect that books sold at Amazon (and probably other sites) are classified by very general tags or fields: fantasy, romance, mystery, etc. with few available subcategories (urban, Regency, procedural, and so on). This much is pretty obvious.
I don't know who assigns these categories, but books often end up in more than one category, whether through ignorance or design. Take a vampire romance: it's obviously a romance but maybe it's a fantasy too. And vampires? Gotta be a horror book. Is it a young adult book? Could be--it won't hurt to put it in that category too! Now that single book has fallen into at least four categories.
Take subgenres like urban fantasy: what indeed is an urban fantasy? Contemporary titles seem to have a lot of romance but I don't know if it is truly an essential element. This ambiguity further complicates this issue. At what point does a book cease to be one genre and belong to another? Must a book fall into a single category?
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Books do get tagged with multiple tags. That is why what I want could be done. If the book has a romance tag, yank it out of my searches and browsing.
There is little ambiguity to what I want. Does one book major in romance and minor in science fiction? Does another major in science fiction and minor in romance? Doesn't matter. I don't want either.