A more on-brand Amazon bookstore would have just been a giant endless warehouse full of books, unstaffed & auto charges you when you leave
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When you leave, it freezes to being that book permanently
One of the best things about the bookstore experience (after the smell of books) is being able to see the full breadth on a topic
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And to select from the topical shelf the one or ones that seem most appealing to you.
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"Most debated on http://amazon.com " and other algorithm-curated shelves ignores the context the book exists within
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I would take Netflix-style algorithmic curation: e.g., "Young Adult High Fantasy with a Queer Lead Character" yessss this is *my shelf*
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Yesss this would be amazing
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was chatting with someone who tried to help traditional retailers/department stores do SEO. hierarchical ontologies are *crippling* online.
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e.g., had category page for "Hoodies > American Apparel" (hierarchical ontology), but not "black hoodies" or "men's hoodies" (search terms)
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by now we should be freed from the constraints of having to store things physically/linearly (dewey decimal). tags over folders, etc.
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arguably the best things about a library—bookstores only incidentally shared this and Amazon’s amplify the commercial nature of relationship
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