Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 11:26:27 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Life, Such As It Is
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 08:24 AM 5/9/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
>> omni at omniphile.com 5/8/2005 11:12:56 PM >>>

>>Perhaps, but I for one don't even know where to look for the Amazon
>rating, so you can tell how much I use that info to make purchase
>decisions...
>
>It's in Product Details, which lists binding, publisher, isbn etc etc
>info.

Thanks, but I still don't care about it much.  No more than I care about
the ISBN or publisher info.  Binding might be of interest though.

When I'm shopping on Amazon the info that goes into my decision to buy or
not includes things like the subject matter, the description of the book
(the text about the book by the professional reviewer, publisher or
whoever), the reviews by other readers of it, the price, and, if available,
the sample pages.  For fiction, and occasionally for non-fiction, the
author's name matters as well.  Most of what I've bought on Amazon has been
non-fiction...I tend to find all the fiction I need these days at cons. ;-)

>It was number 1 for ages and has now slipped to 2: Harry Potter and the
>Half-Blood Prince.  And it's not yet published.

Pre-sales figures?  I've never ordered a book prior to publication, but I
have with DVDs a couple of times.  I don't own any Harry Potter books.

-- Mike B.
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