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Old 05-14-2022, 06:14 AM   #50
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Good, bad, or indifferent... I don't think online bookstores have any real incentive in making it easy for customers to find things they want to buy. Seems they're more interested in getting customers to buy the things they want them to buy. I'm not crazy about it myself, but neither do I get too worked up over it. It's not like I'm in danger of not being able to find lots of titles I want to read (and have a pretty high expectation of enjoying).

Believe me: if it was monetarily in their best interest to have interfaces that allowed customers to quickly and easily find the type of books they're looking for, I'm pretty sure they'd have invested in them by now. *shrug*
I agree. Thinking about it, it's actually better for bookshops if people buy some duds -- if I buy a book that's so bad that I abandon it, I'll need a new book faster.

I almost never use book stores to find new books to read, I find them elsewhere (reviews, blog posts about weird genres , book discussion sites (like here, and parts of Twitter), and recently Storygraph).
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