Dragaera

If you like Robert Jordan

Mon Aug 16 05:27:09 PDT 2004

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Howard Brazee wrote:

@> >> Then Borders recommends
@> >>
@> >> Robin Hobb
@> >> David Farlkand
@> >> Steven Brust
@> >>
@> > Where did Jordan come in there?
@>
@> Probably by sales.   Whomever sells a lot, gets the "If you like" billing.

I imagine it works by the same system as Amazon - people who have bought
books by author A have also frequently bought books by author B. And it
has pretty much the same motivation; boost the sales of one author by
leveraging the name of a more popular one.


(Yes, it is an unjust universe.)