Comments on: Love-seekers to use ads in e-books someday?

By: Mia Amato

Mia Amato — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:51:28 +0000

Thanks guys! Though the P site is maybe a little too service-y. Your original idea was to match people through fiction preferences, and that’s the one to run with, I think….

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:39:15 +0000

Wish granted, Mia. See “Penguin’s dating site: http://snurl.com/kxyvg ” – thanks to Mike Cane. Apparently it’s at least successful enough to be continued.

David

By: Mia Amato

Mia Amato — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:56:14 +0000

Penguin UK, I recall did something of the sort last year – can you use your journalistic skills to find out how that worked out for them? I think it was a BB.

Though your version would include IM capability, yes?

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:41:21 +0000

Appreciated the additional info, Mia. Yes, I didn’t mean this entirely in jest. Hey, if women want romance for real, why not advertise where the right kind of men will see the classifieds? Far more effective than just chatting with other women.

No discrimination, btw. Different kinds of GLBT books could offer get-together features, with the advertisers free to select the kind of book in which the classifieds would appear.

Thanks,
David

By: Mia Amato

Mia Amato — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:03:37 +0000

Actually, finding “love” on your iPhone just got a bit easier…both mobile.ereader.com and Booksonboard.com (via Stanza) are running The Harlequin Love Cafe – a little animation that jiggles and steams and points readers to “Sweet” “Hot” and “Dark” Harlequin titles. (non iPhone users will find the animation on the Powells.com ebooks page)

For your theory to work, men could post their ads under the appropriate category and women could search and pick based on their preference to different types of romances they read.

Seriously, David, there’s a germ of an idea in there somewhere, marrying (so to speak) social media with the fluidity of online books. Something to work on for summer!