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Originally Posted by latepaul
I'm genuinely mystified by this comment. Are you saying you haven't noticed that Amazon allows you to browse based on genre and/or what's new? And what Amazon do other ebook retailers also do - although admittedly some less well.
Maybe it feels less like browsing because the selection is so much bigger?
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Oh, Amazon has browsing, but since Amazon leaves it up to the publishers to maintain the catalogs and since shady people have figured out how to game the system, trying to see what books have come out in the last 30 days is an exercise in frustration and futility for me. I just went to Amazon, pulled up Kindle books, SF&F last 30 days and sorted by publication date. I'm now on page 5. I have yet to see a book that isn't either PD (or at least the author is dead and probably isn't going to complain about someone else getting paid for their books), Porn (Monster Obsessions Box Set: Six Paranormal Erotica Novellas) or self published drek. There are 5,542 books listed, of which, I suspect only 50 are actual new books from a main line publisher.