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Originally Posted by shalym
...but then all those books will *only* be seen by those customers...which is a problem when it comes to discoverability.
Shari
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So? That doesn't make it racist, which was the assertion at the start. If it's a problem then the book seller can put copies in both places. If it's a online store, such as Amazon, it's easy enough to do.
From a pure programmer's point of view, it's easy enough to allow the customer to say "show me all romance novels that have a gay protagonist". The issue is having an accurate database, which as we programmers like to say "That's not a programming issue"
A good decade ago, I predicted that we would see a bunch of websites dedicated to various types of books with curated lists of books and new books this month lists, kind of like the newsletters that were popular back before B&N took over. So far, that prediction hasn't come about, probably because it's hard to monetize such things these days and it's a lot of work, but it's the most likely solution to the discovery issue that I can think of.