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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Your assumption that I'm not in favor of innovation, or that "It's good enough for me" are sadly mistaken/misguided. I love every innovation we've had in e-reading and e-purchasing we've had so far. I'm not wanting it to stay static. I'm just capable of rolling with all the changes that have come, is all.
I have the ability to work within the framework of any system (especially one that doesn't require me to leave my seat). I don't need them to cater to my every whim in order to easily find good books to read, even in this, the age of everything-gets-published (a fact that I love, by the way).
You're the one who wants to return the glory days of only seeing big box publishers when you search for books/authors, but I'm the stagnating, innovation-eschewing grandpa? Whatever.  |
I'm the one who wants searches that filter out the garbage, rather than have to wade through page after page of scam artist trying to get paid for porn or PD books and self publishing author want-to-bes. Amazon's business model pushes the expense of maintaining their database to the publishers, which means there is no vetting. Filtering on recognized publishers such as Tor or Baen, while not perfect, would at least get rid of that layer of garbage. It would mean that someone, somewhere along the line vetted the books.
Of course in theory on can use Amazon's search engine for advanced filtering, but then again, Amazon's search engine appears to think that Roger Zelazny and Larry Niven are the same person, or at least when I search for Roger Zelazny, I get Roger Zelazny books along with Larry Niven, Walter Jon Williams and Kathryn Le Vegue books and that's just on the first two pages. But I'm sure you are right, it's absolutely perfect and anyone who wants improvement should be sneered at.