

Re:Struggling to sell on Amazon 

by TaoPhoenix (980487) <TaoPhoenix@yahoo.com> on Tuesday March 22 2011, @11:46PM (#35582530)

Hi there.

Your thoughful reply still leaves aspects of the problem to be thrashed out. If a Big Box bookstore has some 400 tomes per topic section, "there they are". However if I were to try to look at a big list on Amazon, somehow I find myself getting lost in clicks. Something like click on a title, click on preview, click on chapter 1, make a new browser tab to open Wikipedia to cross check something about the book, and more. This is especially bad for when I am researching nonfiction topics. Nothing beats just opening the tome to see how a Buddhist author handled the notoriously difficult passage in chapter nine where the Pali source was damaged. I haven't yet been able to answer those kinds of queries online yet. If it were all in a Google Scan of some kind maybe - but not with "first chapter and reviews".

