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elf ([personal profile] elf) wrote in [community profile] ebooks 2011-01-19 03:19 pm (UTC)

No, because neither site is going to sign away its control rights, and Google or a search engine isn't what's necessary. A good ebook store needs metadata and tag-based searches; no amount of in-site Googling (not even of the insides of books) will tell you that the Wrinkle In Time series are Christian-themed sci-fi. And an auto-search can't tell the difference between "not really a romance even though the main characters spend the whole book flirting" and "romance" and "erotica" and "eight sex scenes held together by a thin framework of plot." It'd be worse with short story anthologies.

Either Smashwords needs to get a real search engine (you can't even sort by price), or someone needs to declare themselves the self-publishing competition and set up something as good as Fictionwise. (FW has become mostly useless since B&N bought it.)

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