What is the "book editor team" still going through analogs among Amazon's being automated?

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Advance automation of logistics warehouse using warehouse robotAmazon, among others, everything is being automated, "Amazon Books Editor" who play a very analog role. Editors and others are still doing "analog" work that the newspaper has been doing for decades, reading books, writing book reviews and ranking according to the content. The Seattle Times summarizes what the Amazon book editor is and what influence it has.

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People trying to purchase books at Amazon are notified of "Recommendations" deduced from the user's purchase history, as well as Amazon customer reviews, "Amazon Books editor"Editors' PicksYou can get choices from. Editors pick up recommended books of various categories monthly, and announce a list such as "20 best books in the first half" every half year. Although these lists may have a big impact on the market, they are often criticized by critics and researchers.

The current Amazon Book Editor team is a publisherHarper CollinsSarah Nelson, former vice president of the company.

According to Mr. Nelson, the purpose of the Amazon book editor and others is not to stay beyond the literature of intellectuals, but to broadly cover books and eventually to sell books. It seems that the purpose of the selected book is not to spread to the general public but to "to connect with readers and Amazon" to the last. As a result, the books selected as books by the Amazon Book Editor team in June 2016 as "the best book in a year" are not literary works, but biographies of botanist Hope Joan "Lab Girl"was.

In response to such attitude of the Amazon book editor team "It is not a point of success as a business, it is worth praising the team's actions in that it seriously reads books and influences readers" There are voices, but on the other hand, there is a criticism that "I am aiming at only gifts".

Nelson entered Amazon's book editor team in the summer of 2012. The first thing that Mr. Nelson took office as a team leader was the organization of the editor team. There are also "book worms" who frequently wrote book reviews to Amazon as a user among those who were selected as new editors by this person selection very much. For example, Mr. Adrian Liang, a member of the team, was a person who originally wrote romance novels by voluntary publication rather than Amazon employees. Also, until September 2009, Seira Wilson, who served as representative of the sales department at Harper Collins, now handles cuisine and children's books as a member of the Amazon book editor, and also has a role as an expert in youth literature I will. Besides this, there are former bookstore managers, etc. The Amazon Book Editor team where people with various backgrounds gather has become quite special.

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Since Amazon's users are diverse people, it is necessary to ensure that the reading times of editors are not biased. Not only books that are admired and gaining popularity, but also have to read "books entertaining Amazon users". Sometimes, ordinary users buying books at Amazon often tell the books to be read by the editors.

Once a month, editors have published books that are "must read" by 15 categories from history to business. News of the siteThe Christian Science MonitorWhenBusiness InsiderIs picking up this list and it is one of the most influential things that the Amazon book editor does because it is often fashionable.

Early in June 2016, in order to decide the best 20 books in the first half of 2016, many people gathered at the meeting with 38 "monthly recommended" books chosen so far. It is difficult to delete some books from the recommended list, so that employees "do not choose overly melancholic books", "but this teaches me a way to get out of addiction" " Why not spread the frame from 5 to the top 50? "After finally choosing it was" Lab Girl ".

About the book I chose, the employees are confident that "this book is wonderful", but on the other hand it is difficult to predict in advance whether the selected books can be sold or accepted by intellectuals . Regarding Amazon's "best books" list, it is sometimes criticized as "There are no scientific and objectively chosen literary prizes, but still troubles remain with Amazon's trophies", but , Celeste N-no's "Everything I Never Told YoIs thought to have gained popularity as a result of having been selected as Amazon's "best book" in 2014, and Penguin Press publicity publishing Ng's book says, "Amazon's editor team and other people I'm very thankful for the enthusiastic support of that. "

ByDavid Luders