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Amazon Sued For Recommending Books

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-say-litigious-we-sue dept.

localman writes "Cedant, the owner of Super 8 motels and Days Inn, is suing Amazon for patent infringement for recommending books with it's 'customers who purchased X also purchased Y' technology. Heh. 'Technology.' It's always fun to see Amazon hoist by its own petard, as it were, but it would really stink if no website could offer it's customer's recommendations. Got Prior Art?"

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  1. prior art by araven · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seems like something that librarians have been doing for centuries. "If you liked that Trixie Belden book, why don't you try Nancy Drew?" I've seen reading lists along the same lines to suggest other works to people on waiting-lists to borrow the most popular books.

    Don't mess with the librarians.

    ~

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    "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -Emerson