Thread: Amazon’s Book Monopoly : A Threat to Freedom of Expression?
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Old 03-01-2016, 01:54 AM   #187
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Originally Posted by crossi View Post
Every book IS visible to everyone. If they look for it. Now if he was talking about the 10 or 20 books in each person's "recommended for you" section when you open Amazon.com even if they picked 20 books completely at random the chances of seeing some obscure particular book is pretty low, particularly if that section was random everybody would just skip by it as it would be useless to them. Dgatwood's whole argument is ridiculous.
Ah, but you're still assuming that people can see it if they are searching for it. In recent years, Amazon has become (for most people) the default search engine for books. As a result, anything not listed in Amazon's database might as well not exist, because most people won't find it even if they are searching for it. That's what I was talking about when I used the word "discoverability".
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