A little incident on Amazon you might wanna hear... by Hawk

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A little incident on Amazon you might wanna hear...

POSTED BY: HAWK
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 7, 2005 01:22
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 12:18 AM

Bit of an odd one this, maybe I'm overreaching for significance but I thought I'd put it to one of the wisest sets of people I know...

I did a search for Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics on Amazon.co.uk and selected the page for book 5 A Game of You (just to read the reviews, who else LOVED those books?)

Anyway, on the DVD shop section, there was recommended Firefly: The Complete Series! I had done nothing else on this visit to Amazon prior to what I've told you, cos you know they base these hings around your recent history. The only link between the two is that they're in the speculative genre, so it struck me as somewhat odd (in a pleasant way)

I clicked on another link to another Sandman book, and found that on this page the Firefly boxset had been moved up to "The Page You Made"!

This seems to me to be a sign that Amazon is noting the broadening appeal of the show and the DVD set... or it might be the cult appeal.

What do youse guys think? Anybody noticed anything similar?

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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 12:25 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Amazon keeps VERY GOOD statistics on what its buyers like and have bought in the past and based on those statistics makes recommendations to others. Not surprisingly, I bought both the DVD Firefly DVD set and The Sandman from Amazon in the past and I'm sure many others have also. Based on that I'm sure Amazon statistically assumes that you might like it as well.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 1:22 AM

REEQUEEN

While I haven't bought any Sandman from Amazon (with a big yet), I have done searches for the TPBs, and I know Amazon is where El Hubberto purchased my copy of the Firefly series (as well as me doing searches for associated books et cetera).

I'm just sayin'. Interests collide at a certain point of spontaneous simultaneity.

"He has a gorm horizon. All gorm that falls past it is lost forever." UserFriendly http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050114

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