Publisher algorithmic acumen

[telophase]

I'm on the mailing lists for a few academic publishers, because I like to poke through their lists when they have sales on for useful history, anthropology, etc. books for writerly research.

I suspect I'm not the only one. Today I'm looking at geography books at Routledge, because one of my side projects is a map of the larger world of my book, which I should really get around to naming one day, and I'm now mildly panicking about weather, climate, landforms, etc. and I want a good basic geography-cartography book to look at. On the page for An Introduction to Geological Structures and Maps, which might actually be a wee bit advanced for what I'm doing (and is expensive enough I'll ILL it if we don't already have a copy in the library), I happened to scroll to the bottom and spotted the Recommended For You section...


(left to right: Practical Homicide Investigation, Botanical Safety Handbook, Language Signs & Calming Signals of Horses, and Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices for Early Childhood Educators)

That's a list of books for writers if ever I saw one.

Comments

[yhlee]

XD

[telophase]

The kicker is, the horse book is exactly a book I need if I do this other story I'm thinking on, and my 25% off coupon isn't working!! I've emailed the company and explained that it's saying it's expired, although the date in the email is tomorrow, and even accounting for time differences, it's still today where the email is effective. Bah.