Tag Archives: book recommendations

New on Amazon: Video book reviews

By Steve Weber | Published: September 21, 2007

It had to happen sooner or later: Amazon is allowing customers to upload video product reviews. So far I’ve been able to find three video reviews for toys and gadgets (apparently all submitted by Amazon employees) but none for books. Whether this will help book sales is highly debatable. It might even hurt book sales, [...]

Did Amazon’s book recommendation computer crash?

By Steve Weber | Published: July 23, 2007

I buy lots of books Amazon recommends, even though some of the suggestions are wacky. For example, last year I got a recommendation for a book about hysterectomies. Here’s another nutty one I just got this morning: We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Antique Trader Book Collector’s Price Guide by Richard Russell [...]

eBay has a bright idea: Recommendations

By Steve Weber | Published: February 22, 2007

What’s the biggest difference between bookselling on Amazon and eBay? The way I look at it, it’s recommendations. The No. 1 driver of sales on Amazon is keyword searches — buyers looking for a title or author name. No. 2 is recommendations. Amazon creates demand for us, and that’s why we pay 15 percent for [...]

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