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Originally Posted by Over
So far, de-raking a book seems to be a matter of being able to search for it in the homepage, right?
So what?
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Take a quick look at your books. Just one shelf-full will be fine. Textbooks required for courses don't count; move to a different shelf. How many of them did you purchase because you knew exactly what you wanted (what title, what author) before you ever laid eyes on the book, and were willing to search several stores to find it?
(When I try it, I get five books I probably would have found anyway, out of twenty-five books on that shelf.)
Those are the ones you might have been able to find on Amazon even if they had been deranked.
The rest of them--the ones you found because someone mentioned them and you casually checked them out at Amazon's main page, the ones you found because they were sitting out on the shelf and the title or cover caught your eye and you looked inside and liked what you saw, the ones you picked up because Amazon informed you that an author whose books you'd bought before had a new book out, the ones you bought because Amazon said "people who bought the book you're looking at also bought..." Forget it, you'd never have found them.
Now multiply that by every Amazon customer.
*That's* the problem.