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Doing research on an indie author

2019-10-03 18:35:06.192303+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Doing research on an indie author (we're building work use cases). Search Amazon for author name + title. Get *5* unrelated "Sponsored" results before the one I wanted. Yikes.

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#Comment Re: Doing research on an indie author made: 2019-10-04 11:59:48.788953+00 by: DaveP

I’ve given up on amazon for books. I head straight to http://isbn.nu/ nowadays. The search isn’t as good, but the results aren’t obfuscated, either.

#Comment Re: Doing research on an indie author made: 2019-10-04 16:13:21.003699+00 by: Dan Lyke

Part of the reason for this particular application is helping this author build a tool (using our app) to monitor what the various book sellers are doing with their product pages. So Amazon is, unfortunately, the point here.

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