tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3982837118358902227.post4765969341430572843..comments2023-07-14T06:17:49.677-04:00Comments on The Daring Novelist: Genre and Soy Sauce -- Finding What You WantThe Daring Novelisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01676188266569869059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3982837118358902227.post-1622272883035929162011-05-20T11:47:48.437-04:002011-05-20T11:47:48.437-04:00Tagging is one small part of what I was talking ab...Tagging is one small part of what I was talking about -- a small visible thing, like a point on the tip of the iceberg.<br /><br />I have a post coming up about search engine algorithms and how they are COMPLETELY changing the marketing model from anything we recognize. It's all natural and passive -- well, sort of passive.The Daring Novelisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01676188266569869059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3982837118358902227.post-26494848102187459222011-05-20T06:14:30.787-04:002011-05-20T06:14:30.787-04:00I'm looking forward to it, too. I think "...I'm looking forward to it, too. I think "tagging" (which is what Amazon calls it, and what I think you're talking about at the end of your post) will definitely be a tool for someone to find exactly the type of book they want to find. Now if a person is particularly unadventurous, this could mean a diet of one *particular* kind of book (I know kids who ONLY want books with talking animals with forest settings who go on epic adventures...). For others, maybe they're wanting to try out something specific but unusual--which might be hard to track down on a bookstore shelf, but easy with computer algorithms and tagging (urban, elderly vampire who lives in a coastal city, etc, etc.)<br /><br />I think publishing is market driven, for obvious reasons. I *think* the new ebook publishing will prove the same--but with a different type of market and probably wider range.Elizabeth Spann Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625595247828274405noreply@blogger.com