Monday, April 21, 2008

New aStore: Author Mania - Popular Fiction Book Categories @ Amazon.com

Most libraries divide their books into fiction and nonfiction, arranging the nonfiction by topic and the fiction alphabetically by author. Amazon.com does something similar, although their reliance on their internal search function makes the relevant links links pretty obscure. You can always search for your favorite authors within their Literature and Fiction category, but you are liable to get a lot of extraneous results (like all authors with the same first or last name!)

Alternatively, you can drill down to their author pages which feature selected authors in selected fiction genres. This produces considerably more relevant results, although there are still some occasional glitches. Our Author Mania aStore is designed to make it easy to find books by your favorite authors. Because the aStore format only allows searching within the top two categories, each of the top-level categories below contains a somewhat unwieldy list of authors, but they're in alphabetical order, so just take a deep breath and scroll down...

As of this posting, this store is still "under construction," and is rapidly approaching Amazon's 999-category limit. Accordingly, there are currently (and perhaps permanently) no subcategories under some of the top-level categories below:

Author Mania





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