03-09-2010, 09:31 PM | #106 |
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Website very close now.
Dear All:
Every morning I check and every morning we are a little closer. Trying to do a new store is SO hard. The hard part is doing both the back end and front end at once. Every time you click a button that backend comes into play. We are getting close. What takes time is setting up 200,000 pay eBooks by category. We have ten categories we finally went with. Trying to decide if a book is action/adventure or mystery/crime is not so easy. Getting everything right can drive you nuts. Plus, we are hiring a part time person to do reviews and answer problems and correspond with book lovers. This person will be a college student who lives for books and wants to learn the industry from the inside out. You cannot begin to imagine what comes up when you do this. Anyway, my best guess is the cut-in date will be March 15. This will be a Soft Run meaning only MobileRead Forum for the first two weeks. Everything will work... we are just looking for feedback and taking recommendations and selling! |
03-09-2010, 09:37 PM | #107 |
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Thanks for keeping us updated! March 15 must be a great day for ebooks... that's the day my local library will start offering ebook checkouts with Overdrive! I can hardly wait!
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03-09-2010, 09:42 PM | #108 |
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With regard to categories, I am surprised the industry does not include that as metadata in each book.
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03-09-2010, 10:40 PM | #109 | |
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03-09-2010, 11:04 PM | #110 |
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Thanks for letting us know the start up date. Can't wait!
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03-09-2010, 11:22 PM | #111 |
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03-10-2010, 05:28 AM | #113 |
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RobertB, I had several classes in library school on how to tell what genre a book was in, and it boils down to "put stuff where your patron will find it." Sounds simple, but it isn't. But, if you can be consistent, no matter what you do, it'll help. If you always put David Weber in Fantasy, I'll find him, even though some of his series are (arguably) SciFi.
Metadata is a mess because anyone can play, and everyone will categorize things slightly (at least) differently, if they bother (and most won't). In library terms, without a controlled vocabulary, you end up with a dog's breakfast. Unfortunately, with controlled vocabulary, people complain it is hard (I don't think it is, but I had Dewey Decimal System figured out by the time I was 4). I get amused by Internet folks trying to reinvent library cataloging practises. Haven't seen anything yet that makes me want to give up Library of Congress subject headings (as flawed as they are) and a good old fashioned classification system, like Dewey or even LC. And did you remember that 15 March is the Ides of March? |
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03-10-2010, 05:44 AM | #115 |
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Check the verso page. The cataloging data is there. LC subject headings, LC and DDC (Dewey) call numbers, all that stuff. Of course, some publishers are more complete than others and old books won't have them. What can you expect from the people who brought us the ISBN (International Standard Book Number), which is neither international nor standard (nor unique to each title).
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theducks, what about Weber's Hradani trilogy? Some of the stuff he's written with Flint? Granted, the Honorverse books are mostly SF, but empathic cats? |
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03-10-2010, 02:23 PM | #120 |
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Bahzel rocks! I wish he'd do more Hradani books. They are fun.
I'm not sure the line was ever really there, besides as "SF=real (i.e., stuff I like), fantasy=bad" kind of thing. The only thing worse than an "is it SF or fantasy" pissing contest is two library staff who read those genres (oddly, we seem to tend towards liking mysteries and looking down on SF readers) having the same argument. My cats hate all electronic devices, except those that provide a warm surface to sleep on. |
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