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More Muze News

Oh boy!

Biblio.com, the used/OP site, has paired up with Muze to provide actual descriptions of the titles they carry. If you've tried searching for OP titles, frequently you'll be frustrated by the descriptions - they're limited to descriptions of the actual condition of the book (which is helpful) rather than plot summaries, reviews, etc. (which would be even MORE helpful). Finally, Muze's catalog is large enough to support such a necessary project (and it takes a while to aggregate enough OP data to do so).

Unfortunately, Biblio's catalog runs some 21 million items deep. And while Muze has OP data going back before 1995, there are always going to be a significant number of Biblio's titles that will never have the marketing information that the more recent or well-known titles do. It'll be interesting to see how (or if) Muze handles this. For the most part, Biblio's customers are not going to be searching for that
early Shirley Jackson title, or the book one's mother wrote in her youth - they're looking for used copies of Harry Potter, plain and simple.
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