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That would be cool but I have the feeling that it is going to get harder and harder.
Amazon is my goto place for books because that is where all the indie authors are as well as ease of purchase, I follow so many authors that it would be impossible for me to do so easily without somewhere like amazon to track new releases and purchase there. I have to admit that as a business I am not terribly happy with some of their business practices, lobbying and other such things.
as far as this issue goes, well.. if they have enough people hitting them for bulk metadata searches that is is affecting their performance from time to time then I can see their point. I don't like it because I am a customer and am just doing it mostly for books purchased there. However I have noticed times in the last year when their website has slowed down significantly between when I purchase a book and it shows up as available (Average is usually 2 or 3 seconds. I have seen it take minutes sometimes though) . To me this speaks of a big hit on their database's. I imagine they are starting to get ruthless about anything outside their core money making practices that affect performance to get cut or stopped.
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