Appeal

At first when reading through the article about the different appeal factors of readers advisory I felt there was so much to think about it would be difficult to use this method. But, on second look, and thinking about it more I realize this can be very helpful to advise others on what may appeal to them. Not just looking for similar authors.

I feel it will give a better way to move out of the same type of author suggestions and maybe to something that will be liked by the customer because of the appeal factors they care most about.

This can be a learning experience for the customer since they may not even be aware of appeal factor and can get them to start thinking in those terms for finding newer authors and titles. They may be able to read reviews and descriptions of titles and authors taking note of the things that will appeal to them or not.

Taking this a step further I was thinking that there may be other appeals for different media such as books on CD and Playaways. The customer may be interested in a type of reader, how they read, male or female, etc. Or with music, there may be a whole different set of appeal factors, such as style of music, types of instruments played, depth of song writing, etc.

Six Year Old Guesses

As I said in the earlier post "YOU CAN NOT JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER. This childs guesses are proof.

Stop Your Killing Me

I checked out, ha ha, no pun intented, the Stop Your Killing Me page. I liked it and especially the section where you can find main characters, usually a detective, matched to the author that created that character. This is helpful when a customer may know the character but not author. Matching them up would make a good game on the sight.

I also found the section on geography where you can pick areas of the world as settings and find titles with that area as the setting. This is great if someone likes a certain part of the world and mysteries. I checked New Mexico, where I have been and find interesting, and found some titles set there. I knew about Tony Hilleman, but I found others. Nice page!

Early Word

Checked out the Early Word Blog. I enjoyed it, though I found it a little busy. I really liked the page that told about the books that are, or have been made into movies. I will explore it a some more.

Week 1 - Assignment 1

I had fun with this. I was surprised how many I knew, but sometimes have trouble coming up with the title. Oh my old age. And remember,  Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover.

JC - 4/22