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Why Allreaders was created: To get more people reading more books.
I got up one morning and realized that it was pretty difficult to find new authors I liked. I would have to stand in the bookstore for hours, reading the backs of books, buying a few, and then, when I got home and really started reading, realizing that I didn't really like what I had bought. Shopping online was even worse, because I didn't have the backs of those bookcovers to read. I realized immediately that fiction, unlike non-fiction, was very difficult to classify. I noticed that unless a book was a "top 20" book, it wasn't browsable on Amazon.com et.al. unless one knew the exact author or title to look for. One couldn't search for a book with a specific kind of plot, or a specific kind of character. New authors had trouble getting discovered, and even established authors had trouble expanding their reach. Being a writer, I started thinking about what people liked, and disliked about books. I realized that people didn't just like books, they liked certain plots in books, certain kinds of characters in books, certain kinds and amounts of action and dialogue in books. if I could turn this idea into a database that could be accessed by a search engine, I would be doing the fiction readers and writers of the world a great service. The same applied to our movie review engine at Allwatchers.com. What allreaders could do for books, allwatchers could do for movies. And so I created the GPSE, the Gordonator Precision Search Engine. Catchy title, eh? All the focus groups loved it.
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