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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yep. Lots of indies and get rich quick types are gaming Amazon especially by changing the publication date on a daily basis so their book is always shown as just published. They also put the same book in genres they where they don't belong.
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OK thanks for clarifying.
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There is no reason that I should be able to filter that stuff out, but Amazon doesn't support such filtering. I have tried going by popularity, but then most of the above crowd have also figured out that part of gaming the system is getting 6 or 7 of your buddies to give you 5 star ratings.
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It does annoy me that when you rank by rating a book with a single 5-star review beats one with loads of 4-stars.
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Eventually, some ebook store will figure things out, take advantage of technology and give customers a fully customizable shopping experience that lets you see the books that you are most likely to like. But that's going to take work and quality control. They can't simply push the work off on the various ebook publishers and authors and expect good results.
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Well I don't think it takes a lot of figuring out - you just mentioned the solution there. The question is: is the cost worth it? The amount of manual checking involved would be huge and therefore expensive.
That's if you maintained the current catalog. If you excluded indies in some way then it would be cheaper but then how do you make sure you're not filtering out the next Hugh Howey? And also whilst most of these indies may not sell more than a handful of copies, multiply that by millions and you have a very nice income that you'd be giving up.
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Amazon is a great experience if you already know what you want to buy. Not so good if you don't already know.
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Once again, I like the Amazon experience even when I don't know what I want. Clearly not true for you but it just goes to show that not everyone's the same.