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Originally Posted by Atunah
I would love for regular KU be this curated. A KU where every book that is allowed in, has been looked at by a person and checked for obvious things.
Would be less titles sure, instead of a sea of 1,000,000, there might be just a curated lot of 50,000. But it would make it so much easier to find something in the program and I also think it would get more subscribers that way.
And no more having to scroll by scamlets, cheatlets and covers that look like a cat made it.
When I first saw PR, I wondered if at some point in the future the two will meet and merge. I am paid up till July for KU, I will reassess then. For now, I find plenty to read in it, but I did have to built up wishlists as browsing for titles is impossible for reason I mentioned above. I can't for example look up new stuff in the program. If its not on my wishlist, I won't see it.
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Amazon is not going to filter KU any time soon. No more than they are going to filter the Kindle store: one person's dreck is the next's fun read.
However, they could leverage goodreads to provide KU-specific reading lists, a sort of book club/reading circle for each genre. But I wouldn't want Amazon to have that kind of kingmaker power. The best part of the Kindle ecosystem is its (more or less) level playing field.
I think policing scams and reviews is as far as they should go.