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Slightly off topic, but given Amazon is off conquering the world, does anyone else feel as though Barnes & Noble could put together a data driven blog regarding trending books, topics, how different books are read, etc. much like OkCupid did for dating a while back? It might not be as sexy of a topic, but it could captivate an audience to think about Barnes & Noble when you buy a book?

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They could make a dating app that pairs you with people of similar literary taste.

It'd probably be a better match than those ok cupid algorithms, and an instant ice breaker.

That was an actual hackathon project at Scribd.

Instead, I wanted to do reading-sentiment showing which parts of the book were exciting by measuring engagement, to learn years later porn-sites had been doing that successfully for a long time.

I guess Freud had a point.

This is a very good idea.

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