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Re: Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books

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post #14

You need to put in some form of CTA for purchase of said books. I kept looking for the Amazon link to check the pricing and other relevant metadata.

I kept looking for the same but the closest action was to add to a reading list.

OP, also check out Amazon's affiliate program.

Re: Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books

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post #8

Very cool. One feature that RT has that you don't have yet is the ability to see all reviews by a reviewer/institution. Actually, being able to see all books by the author would be especially useful. And it's a view more particularly essential than it is for RT (since an author has a more singularly important role in the quality of a work, compared to the actors/studios/directors/writers/producers/financial backing t…

We will be adding sort/search by author/reviewer as we grow the db.

Good to hear, I was frustrated when searching for a particular author, ie "Robert Jordan" would return results with "Robert" or "Jordan" anywhere in the title or author name.

Also if you search for something like "The X of Y" you'd get results that had nothing but the "the" or "of" in common. :(

Re: Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We will be adding sort/search by author/reviewer as we grow the db.

Good to hear, I was frustrated when searching for a particular author, ie "Robert Jordan" would return results with "Robert" or "Jordan" anywhere in the title or author name. Also if you search for something like "The X of Y" you'd get results that had nothing but the "the" or "of" in common. :(

We made some changes for the search to work better...just need to deploy.

Re: Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books

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cough Goodreads. Already has network effects going for it, and a very vibrant author community. It does pretty much what all the comments on this HN page suggest you should add/change.

Also, your site took almost 5 minutes to load. That is simply unacceptable.

Re: Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books

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post #28

cough Goodreads. Already has network effects going for it, and a very vibrant author community. It does pretty much what all the comments on this HN page suggest you should add/change. Also, your site took almost 5 minutes to load. That is simply unacceptable.

We focus on critic reviews to create a recommendation of higher quality (they don't do critic reviews).

Re: Show HN: A RottenTomatoes for Books

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post #28

cough Goodreads. Already has network effects going for it, and a very vibrant author community. It does pretty much what all the comments on this HN page suggest you should add/change. Also, your site took almost 5 minutes to load. That is simply unacceptable.

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120724_PJ_YQW/

Slow as hell, but far from 5 minutes.

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