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Old 01-13-2016, 06:04 AM   #107
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
Good summary in general but the problem is the crap does not disappear any more. At near zero marginal cost there's no incentive for Amazon to ever remove an ebook from its servers. Even without the "crap" the back catalog of good books is growing at a huge rate. The filtering/search problem is only going to get worse.
The problems with Amazon's search (I mentioned many problems in another thread) is you cannot filter enough to make it really useful. And as you say, more crappy self-published books are going to be mixed in with the results you want and thus, searching is going to get worse and worse.
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