November 12, 2003
Amazon.com has a great new feature called Purchase Circles. Basically, a Purchase Circle is a specialized bestseller list. You can find out the bestselling products to a given town, university, company, or non-profit organization. It's pretty interesting because Amazon bases the lists on the "items that are more popular with each specific group than with the general population." So, here are a few lists of interest:
I tried searching for Covenant College, but apparently there haven't been enough purchases made to create a Purchase Circle yet.
Posted by JohnH at November 12, 2003 02:31 PM | TrackBackStrange how we have such good taste in music and such spectacularly bad taste in books.
Posted by: mesh at November 12, 2003 03:30 PMYou beat me to that mesh.
Posted by: JosiahQ at November 12, 2003 04:11 PMinteresting. and why is the taste in books bad??
Posted by: Melanie at November 13, 2003 10:00 PMI'm not familiar with most of the books on the list so I can't really say. Life of Pi is supposed to be quite good, and I really enjoy The Message Bible translation, though.
Posted by: John at November 14, 2003 11:36 PM