> Very interesting concept. How we determine what to read may change soon, thanks to a
> service called BookLamp, aka “Pandora for books”. Mashable states that readers can
> enjoy targeted, user-generated reviews that taste real, rather than like canned
> promotional copy. More importantly, BookLamp.org offers an advanced matching
> algorithm that can lead to worthwhile new reading discoveries. New BookLamp service
> is like Pandora for books. BookLamp.org has the suggestion algorithms and useful user
> commentary to reshape the book reading experience on the consumer level, but it also
> helps book publishing outlets. BookLamp data can help publishers refine their
> targeting and marketing strategies, even to individual consumers. Knowing what
> they’ve read and what they’re most likely to read moving forward is golden
> information for book publishers.
Right. OK.
Publishers: My decision to buy and/or read a book is generally based on my familiarity with other work by the author.
This month I read shorter works by Stephen Baxter and Allen M. Steele, and had a chance to sample the wares offered by Benjamin Cromwell, Kit Reed, Chris Beckett, Peter Friend, and Anna Tambour. Some of those were good enough that I might buy something else they've written.
I was further entertained by Geoffrey A. Landis, Susan Abel Sullivan, and Sandra Lindow, but these were poems, and I don't make reading decisions based on such disposable works as "Of Lycanthropy and Lilacs."
Also, anyone with google might discover that I'm unlikely to actually buy anything you publish, as I'm now well over a year behind in my stack of periodicals.
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