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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Sounds like sellers of ebooks need to find a way to market them to travelers
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That was the whole promise of kindle with whispernet. You can buy and download a book almost anywhere. Of course, once again, the ebook publishers haven't really solved the discoverability issue.
To find an ebook, you have to actively know to look for it. I really thought that by now, we would have been to the point where I would automatically be notified when a favored author comes out with a new work, or has a backlist published. Author alert kind of sort of lets you know when a new book comes out by an author, but it's not completely reliable and doesn't cover pure backlist ebooks.
I also thought we would have curated websites or newsletters that would tell us about the new books in the various genres, but as far as I can tell, that one hasn't happened.
I thought that Amazon would have improved their store and let use filter the book lists to give an individualized way of browsing for ebooks, but the amazon ebook store hasn't really changed much in the past decade. Lack of competition will do that.