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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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.
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It's never been about a level playing field, but rather about pushing expenses onto someone else, i.e. the Walmart model. Amazon's decision to push the maintenance of their book catalogue onto the publishers makes finding books that I want to read a lot more difficult. But since they are all about driving people towards books they want to sell (i.e. bigger profits for them), they rather obviously don't care about that.
It would be fairly easy for them to add the ability to filter books much better, but apparently they don't consider it a priority.
Thus I rarely bother trying to scan to see what new books are out there. Instead, I use authoralert to tell me when an author that I like has a new book out, and occasionally search for specific authors to see if any new backlist books are out.