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Amazon tags now available in RSS feeds
There’s a new RSS feed system for Amazon tags. You can aggregate Amazon feeds in a news reader. On most tag pages you’ll find an orange RSS icon and the label “RSS feed.” That means you can subscribe to track new products added to the tag or new discussions posted on Amazon’s site. For example, [...]
Plugging your book into social-networking sites
Here’s a follow-up recent posts about tags, MySpace, and Amazon’s Web 2.0 features like book recommendations and Search Inside the Book. Everyone knows these fancy features help people discover your book on Amazon. But these features can help people find your book outside Amazon, too. Here’s an example from my experience: A few months ago [...]
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Tags vs. Categories: Which Amazon feature is more useful?
Which Amazon features are the most effective in encouraging consumers to buy books? Many people say it’s book reviews and Search Inside the Book. In a recent discussion, one publisher asserted that Search Inside is obviously Amazon’s most effective feature. It allows browsers to mimick the same thing they enjoy doing at a real bookstore [...]
Book tagging lags at Amazon; soars at LibraryThing
They’ve crunched some numbers at LibraryThing, and with much smaller user base, the social-networking site has accumulated ten times as many book tags as Amazon. The score: LibraryThing, 13 millionAmazon, 1.3 million // What’s the problem with tagging at Amazon? It’s simple, says LibraryThing found Tim Spalding: E-commerce and tagging don’t mix. “You can’t get [...]
Media Library: Amazon's social-networking answer to LibraryThing?
Amazon users can tag books within a personalized section of the site called Your Media Library. Here you can view all your previous purchases and buy online access to eligible hard-copy books you’ve already bought from Amazon. You can organize your Media Library by tagging individual books this way: – Click on the book to [...]
Tagging: A new way of organizing and marketing books
A growing number of book lovers are using tags to provide their own way of classifying books. Amazon and some library online catalogs now allow users to use tags as a supplement to the hierarchical category system. Book tagging allows people to assign trendy, granular labels to books -— nuances beyond the world’s hippest, brainiest [...]
Amazon renames 'Search Suggestion' feature to emphasize 'tags'