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.