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Originally Posted by Difflugia
I'm pretty sure their original business model was to quickly publish BookRags notes for titles that were available in paper, but not on the Kindle. The titles were usually "[Title] by [Author] Lesson Plans", with the expectation that the title/author combination was long enough to truncate when displayed on the store interface from a Kindle device. People would buy the "Lesson Plan" thinking they were buying the original book and either wait too long to return it or not know they could in the first place. Seeing a BookRags title used to be the clue that a title wasn't available for Kindle.
You can see a classic example here:
Here's the top customer review:
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Amazon apparently got enough complaints that the BookRags titles no longer show up in searches unless "BookRags" is included as a search term. |
Perceptive and interesting. Thanks.
I hate to do business with a company that has a history of being less than forthright. However, I'm always glad to get any good freebies that I can off of them.
