On The Failure Of Recommendation Engines

Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,

We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated books by Bill Drummond have also purchased The Economics of Large-value Payments and Settlement: Theory and Policy Issues for Central Banks by Mark Manning. For this reason, you might like to know that The Economics of Large-value Payments and Settlement: Theory and Policy Issues for Central Banks will be released on 1 August 2009.

I think perhaps some smarter author matching in in order. Either that or Zodiac Mindwarp is branching out in some really odd directions, and proving unexpectedly capable of taking his fans with him. I suspect the former, and Amazon have made it sound like the latter, but I really don’t believe that very many people (like me) who read books with title like “Get Your Cock Out” are hugely interested in “The Economics of Large-value Payments and Settlement”. Oh dear, Amazon.