[pwalker8]

I voted my favorite authors, but like most I have a multipronged approach that has changed over the years.

Originally, I would browse the books stores looking in the new books section and occasionally getting recommendations.

Over the years, that morphed into browse the book stores looking in the new books section, keeping an eye out for new books by favored authors.

Once baen started their websubscriptions it became
Buy Websubscriptions every month, browse the book stores looking in the new books section, keeping an eye out for new books by favored authors.

Once various ebook stores opened up it became
Buy Websubscriptions every month, browse the books stores looking in the new books section, keeping an eye out for new books by favored authors. Look to see if any of the books that I wanted to buy in the books store were in the kindle store, if so, buy the ebook, otherwise by the paper book.

About a year after Jim Baen died, I noticed that websubscriptions had stopped becoming a buy every month item.

After the kindle store opened up, I started going to the B&N less often and started browsing both the kindle store and the sony ebook store, sorted by release date.

Eventually, I stopped buying from the sony store and bought mostly from the kindle store. At that time, many of my new purchases were from Amazon recommendations.

As the kindle store became more and more popular and especially after Amazon started the indie self publishing, the new releases because way too painful to browse and I started using sites like author alerts to tell me when various favored authors were coming out with new books. I would also search amazon from a list of favored authors. About that time, I started to go with on line recommendations more and more. I also noticed that Amazon was recommending more and more books that I had zero interest in, but apparently were indie books that Amazon was pushing, thus I started ignoring Amazon recommendations.

What would be my preferred solution - A watch list of my favorite authors that will notify me every time a favored author puts a new book in the ebook store (right now that's 99% Amazon) combined with the ability to browse the ebook store sorted by release date, with a robust filter criteria (i.e. things like only books from a list of publishers, and/or authors on my watch list or books not published by a list). Add in a couple of good review sites that would do best of this months releases in genres that I like. (seems like a no brainer, I wonder why we don't have something like that).