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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Dugbug, I love it that you do this. Please keep it up. But you'll be happy (I hope) to hear that I think you missed a few titles for the Kindle. I downloaded your latest spreadsheet and started searching the Sony site as I had done last October (see post #7 in this thread). As I searched, I was finding that there were titles at Sony but you said were not at Amazon which surprised me. So I manually checked those at Amazon and found a total of 16 more titles for the Kindle. I think perhaps some of your searches are little off. I found titles for Kurt Vonnegut (not Vonnegut, Jr.), another author was slightly misspelled, etc. You'll find the comments in column E of the attached spreadsheet for the 16 that I found. But I only searched for titles at Amazon if your spreadsheet said it wasn't there AND I had found them at Sony. So there may be more than 16.
From the 437 titles in the spreadsheet, Amazon has 133 of them (30.4%) and Sony has 98 of them (22.4%). Amazon had 37 titles that Sony did not. Sony had 2 titles that Amazon did not. That's about typical for Sony. Be happy you own a Kindle.
Keep up the good work!
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Oh, it's probably not his searches. Amazon's search tool is buggy as all get out "and" there is not sufficient quality control in their item inventory tagging process. I spent a few hours one night testing it after I'd gotten contradictory results from a search and pretty much figured out what was wrong. (Much debugging of inventory management software in my youth. Programmers often do the same things) And sent off some results to them and actually had a dialogue explaining what was wrong with it. Eventually a systems guy called me on the phone and found the problem and indicated that they would fix it in a later build. Which they did. But heh, they caused a different problem which still exists as of last week.
Try your searches a couple different ways, you'll see what I mean.
heh, I know this sounds like I think I'm "all that" but I'm not, I've just done a lot of it and seen so much of what's possible to do wrong. :P