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Thanks! To start, I am focusing on asking authors/experts for their 5 book recommendations on a topic they are passionate about and know well. Here are some ex
by bwb 6y ago
Thanks!
To start, I am focusing on asking authors/experts for their 5 book recommendations on a topic they are passionate about and know well. Here are some examples of how this is playing out:
The Best Books On The Soviet Space Program And The Space Race -> https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-soviet-space-program https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-soviet-space-program
The Best Books On The Ocean And Seas -> https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-ocean-and-seas https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-ocean-and-seas
The Best Books On Content Creation And Content Marketing ->
https://shepherd.com/best-books/content-creation-and-content-marketing https://shepherd.com/best-books/content-creation-and-content...
Then I will relate those book lists to each other both distantly and closely in order to help a reader follow their curiosity through the website, kinda like walking through aisles of books:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/related-book-lists https://forauthors.shepherd.com/related-book-lists
Then toward July/August I will add Topic pages to help people find books on a topic they are interested in like World War 2, Grief, Startups, and so on:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/shelf-pages https://forauthors.shepherd.com/shelf-pages
My goal is as I build up the content that next year I will do two things:
1. Start playing with NLP to create even more unique ways to find books, such as browsing a timeline of Japan and inserting people and events and books/book-lists into
2. Start asking users for their 1-3 favorite books of the year. I want to make this an incredibly high quality vote that is limited. And, use that to help add more books to the mix.
ben@shepherd.com, hit me up as I could use feedback :),
Thanks, Ben