Discoverability in iBookstore from the iPad?
I've been doing a bit of research for the past few weeks about marketing titles published to the iBookstore. I'm a bit puzzled by what appears to be an "invitation only" model to discoverability on the iBookstore when browsing from the iPad. I'm pretty sure that I'm missing something here, so any tips would be appreciated!
First, I can't find ANY way to browse the full set of titles in the iBookstore beyond the first 100 or so in the various curated categories that Apple chooses to create and maintain. For example "Beautiful Children's Books", "Books About Film", etc. All of these catebories appear to be populated at Apple's discretion.
When drilling down into a top-level category, such as Fiction, Nonfiction, Children & Teens, etc., once again the only groupings appear to be curated and hand-picked sub-categories.
It's not clear to me whether even the few "What's Hot" type categories are algorithmic or hand-selected.
From iTunes on a Mac/PC, things are a better. The full set of categories is reachable and is sorted by default using some formula that I'm assuming represents popularity. You can also sort by title.
Since most people who want to read a book on an iPad use the iPad interface to the iBookstore, what options are there to a) begging Apple to include you in a curated cateogry or b) searching for the book by its title?
Thanks for any help that you can give!
I have the same or at least similar issue. If I'm looking for a new book in a given category, say mysteries and thrillers, I can see a list of 100 "new release" books that seem to be curated picks by iBooks. No where can I see a list of all new releases, so unless I know the title of a newly released book, it's unlikely I will com across it by just browsing iBooks. Compare this to Amazon where I can view every single kindle book released in the last 30 days, 90 days or ever. Kindle makes it much easier to browse all titles available. They also provide subcategories, which helps with browsing. So the question(s) in all of this are:
1. Is there a way to see all new releases based on publication date, not just the 100 books placed on the seemingly curated list?
2. Is there a way to just browse all books, not just new releases or a curated subsets, without searching by specific author or knowing the book title? In other words, can I sort all books in a category based on ratings/reviews, pub date, best selling, etc?
Right now, I find myself browsing books on the amazon kindle site then coming to iBooks to look up/buy the book because the browsing options in iBooks are so limited. I feel like I'm only seeing a small subset of the books available on iBooks and as a result, missing out on some good reads and/or recent releases by my favorite authors because they don't make the curated lists. Maybe I should just go back to using theKindle app for iPad.
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