Details from fiction, cataloged and connected to other books and the real world.
Fascinating idea. Signed up, looking forward to the invite.
This is something that Wikipedia could have done. I suppose it does do this as a casual side effect, but SD is doing it explicitly.
My major question (as usual) is how are they going to make money. Maybe that will be clear when I get an account. I'm assuming it will be through affiliation or even direct sales.
Which reminds me how bad Amazon's recommendations pages suck. I'm constantly surprised that a company with their resources can produce something which is useless at recommending me anything.
Have you used Goodreads? When you first sign up they ask you to rate books, and each time based on a book you read it shows 4 more that are related, I was VERY surprised how accurate it was for some chains of books, especially when compared with Amazon.
Having said that, this sounds like an awesome idea, waiting for an invite now!
I wouldn't say they suck - they're based on the purchasing patterns of similar people.
However, they're not great. But you still find good stuff - got to the third page of my Kindle recommended page before I found something, but that's better than nothing!
I remember the amazon self-published spam-book problem (people scraping wikipedia etc. and self-publishing thousands of low quality e-books on the kindle marketplace) And I wonder how this will translate for Small Demons, when someone with an SEO mindset will try to leverage this system? We'll see new "optimized" books, full of celebrities names, brands, products, companies, etc.
Fascinating idea. Signed up, looking forward to the invite.
This is something that Wikipedia could have done. I suppose it does do this as a casual side effect, but SD is doing it explicitly.
My major question (as usual) is how are they going to make money. Maybe that will be clear when I get an account. I'm assuming it will be through affiliation or even direct sales.