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Originally Posted by hildea
If a romance has fantasy or SF elements it belongs in both SFF/fantasy and romance. Just like if it is a crime mystery, a romance, and a historical novel, it belongs in all those categories.
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Yes. The idea a novel has only one genre is modern. Though putting misleading tags is wrong.
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Originally Posted by hildea
But I do think online bookshops are really, really bad at helping people find books. A filter that let's you exclude things seems like a no-brainer (show me books tagged with SFF but not romance), but I haven't seen it anywhere. It would also help if a book could have a primary category, so you'd know if it was a romance in an SFF setting, or an SFF book with a romantic subplot.
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All true. Actually Amazon is the worst, because they are so determined to give you results. So much that searching Amazon using DuckDuckGo works better. Yet sometimes the web search returns items (generally, not just books) that are never returned searching on Amazon. Kobo is a little better.
What ever happened to qualified searches like we had over 20 years ago, like using AND, OR, NOT and brackets, not just quotes?
Why does Amazon return other authors on the Author search and leave out books that are actually available?
They can't even sort a "wish list" with only Kindle ebooks in it from low to high price properly.
It's not just the publishers / authors. On almost all the sites when you publish you select two or three genres and the order is supposed to be significant. Then you choose tags. Also you put the series name.
Yet the customers can't search on these!
The obsession with advertising and paid promotions has totally broken what search they have.