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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Do you have examples of any company's implementation that only returns the titles you want it to? And you're right, I don't want to address the issue. Because there isn't one to address. You made it up. Not being willing to try the books that a search/recommendation engine returns is not proof that it didn't return titles you might enjoy. Or that the engine has an "agenda." Every book search I do on the internet turns up titles that make it onto my "maybe sorta wanna check it out list." Never been happier with the scope of choices being recommended to me.
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I'm glad your happy. I'm not. Everytime I go to amazon and try to look through the new books in a particular subject (sf&f usually), I get frustrated and give up after scrolling through 50 out of 100 + pages of books I have zero interest in, by authors I've never heard of. I've reading SF&F since the mid 70's and know most of the major authors.
When I search the kindle store for Roger Zelazny, I get 50 book, only some of which have anything to do with Roger Zelazny. Instead I get several kindle unlimited books by Tim McBain. I get books by John Zelazny, Leigh Grossman, Alfred Bester, Harry Harrison, George R.R. Martin, Andre Norton, Michael Aizen. The one constant in the non Roger Zelazny books is most of them are kindleunlimited books.
I get that Amazon wants to push the Kindle Unlimited, but if I search from Roger Zelazny, I want Roger Zelazny books.
When I look at the last 30 days under fantasy, I see titles like "Murder in Mayberry: Barney's Return", "Oh Crumps!3: The Tooth Fairy", "Peter the Pirate", "Portal to Elysium:Where Love is eternal", "Mistaken Blows and Turpentine kisses". That's all on one page.
Yea, no problem here. Anything Amazon does is perfect and can't possibly be any better. I'm glad you like it, but don't pretend that there aren't issues.