Remember kids, Doctorow, the same person that uses LLMs to do spelling and grammar checks dedicated a whole chapter to Amazon in one of his books.
[[This chapter is dedicated to Amazon.com, the largest Internet
bookseller in the world. Amazon is *amazing* -- a "store" where you can
get practically any book ever published (along with practically
everything else, from laptops to cheese-graters), where they've
elevated recommendations to a high art, where they allow customers to
directly communicate with each other, where they are constantly
inventing new and better ways of connecting books with readers. Amazon
has always treated me like gold -- the founder, Jeff Bezos, even posted
a reader-review for my first novel! -- and I shop there like crazy
(looking at my spreadsheets, it appears that I buy something from
Amazon approximately every *six days*). Amazon's in the process of
reinventing what it means to be a bookstore in the twenty-first century
and I can't think of a better group of people to be facing down that
thorny set of problems.]]
Recommendations. High art. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'm honestly kinda glad I write Romance because none of these fuckwits, CEOs and stuff, will ever read my books, because Romance is for women only in their minds.