I just found a very cool tool on Amazon that I hadn't seen before: purchase circles. They're bestseller lists for different types of groups of people: towns, states, companies, universities, governmental groups, and so forth. My favorite section to browse is the govermental sector - it's quite interesting to see what the U.S. House of Reps purchases from Amazon.
The bestseller list of my hometown of Sunnyvale, CA, which is right smack dab in the middle of Silicon Valley heavily features Perl, Linux, and other computing and engineering books - the only non-technical book is Voice of Reason : Why the Left and Right Are Wrong.
My university is too small to have enough data yet, I think, but the college students are certainly skewing the results of the town's purchases - no way that a small, conservative town in Indiana would be purchasing so many left-wing books.
What do the purchase circles you're a part of say about your community or groups?
Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
Mine are mostly crime dramas (heavy on the John Grisham) or religious fiction. But the number one spot is The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Laura Schlessinger. Ugh!
Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
A little to the south of me there is much more non-fiction (government, religion and diet books) but the DaVinci Code in number one. Could it be because of the new movie?
Posted by Zamphyr (Member # 6213) on :
Hm, top book hometown-wise is Dude, Where's My Country? , which I found suprising because we're a fairly Republican town and county.
Music - we're an aging baby-boomer POPulation : Josh Groban, Beatles, Rod Stewart's latest remakes not suprising.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Provo, Utah:
1. The Book of Mormon Reference Companion 2. Practical Cryptography :shrug: 3. The Crystal City (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 6)
I wonder if the Practical Cryptography relates to a BYU class. Or, we could all just be CIA operatives out here.
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
Thanks, but I get my circles for free.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Hey, that is pretty cool!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Here's what they're reading in my neck of the woods:
quote: 1. Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus
2. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-up Adaptation by Robert Sabuda, Lewis Carroll
4. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
5. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Christopher Paolini
7. The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss by Arthur Agatston
8. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
9. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
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