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My recommendation engine told Silence of the Lambs readers to try Matilda
I built SageChimp partially because I got tired of not being able to tell if enthusiasm about a book was real. Separating unpaid reviews from incentivized ones, saying "not enough data yet" instead of inventing a consensus, that is the entire premise of the site. So, there is a certain justice in getting caught doing the exact thing I built the place to expose, in a system I had not thought to check.
Everyone Loved This Book... Can You Trust Modern Reviews
Last month I bought a novel with a 4.7-star average and eleven hundred reviews. The top review said they had stayed up until three in the morning because they c
The Genre Problem Nobody Talks About
SageChimp now lets readers suggest genre corrections on any book page. Here is why clean genre data matters more than you think, and how the community keeps it that way.
An Open Letter to the Publishing Industry: From Someone Who Got Tired of Waiting for You to Fix It
The book publishing industry has spent a decade failing the people it exists to serve. Readers abandoned on a platform Amazon bought and neglected. Authors paying hundreds of dollars for tools that cost a fraction of what they charge, to reach an audience the industry was supposed to deliver. The bridge between writers and readers should have been built by the people who profit from that connection. It wasn't. So I built it.