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suresk on Sept 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What are your failed projects / ideas?

Sounds like an interesting idea - I love reading, and a lot of ideas I've had have been book-related.

Just curious - why not utilize Amazon's book database, since that is likely how you'd make your money anyway (via referral fees)?

john2x on Sept 3, 2012 [–]

Thanks. I was relying on book lovers' desire to "show-off" about how well read they (we) are.

I started using Amazon, but when I started thinking about adding badges and it would need the book database to be very specific about authors/genres/titles, (which Amazon's wasn't) I realized it was way out of my league.

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