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Sounds very interesting. Thanks for the detailed reply. I wrote a book about 4 years ago. It was very well received by those that read it and still gets a 5-star rating to this day but marketing it was real hard and getting the kind of distribution I would have wanted has been really hard.



Ya and that is the crux of what I am hoping to try to solve.

There are so many great books that are also unknown, and I am trying to help people diversify their reading material and eventually map out people's "book dna" in order to do better recommendations. I am really worried that new authors have an even harder time to get traction than they did 10 years ago, even if a big publishing house picks them up it looks like most of the marketing burden is on them. I want to see if I can help in that department while giving readers better ways to find amazing books.


Totally agree. Traction is even harder than 10yrs ago. I hope you're able to crack it.


Me too, it is a nice problem to work on and I am hopeful that in a few years I can make a dent.




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