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Originally Posted by tomsem
What do you think is missing in terms of ‘discoverability’?
I have no problems finding interesting things to read. My problem is finding time to read what I’m interested in reading (and in many cases, have already bought). I don’t rely on any one source of book recommendations, and don’t think I need any more. I have no interest in trying Browserly, at least not until it has attracted some critical mass of users (I’m skeptical that it will, and don’t understand why B&N is even trying this).
Authors and publishers have a discoverability problem. But it is not obvious to me that there is a one size fits all tool to help with this.
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Never said that one size fits all was the way to go. I'm sure that eventually we will see a lot of different approaches. For example, authoralerts was a very useful tool for me, not 100%, but it notified me of a majority of new books by authors that I like. Unfortunately, Amazon cut them off at the knees.
If I were the major publishers, I would put together a consortium of the major publishers to develop a database of all the books currently in print, both paper and ebook, with each publisher responsible for maintaining their books and give people access to it. I suspect that we would see a lot of innovative uses of it.
I really expected that Amazon would be doing a much better job of building tools to match customers with their preferred authors. But hey, I guess when you don't have much competition, there is no incentive to innovate.