I love Amazon.com, but it lacks some really basic features. For example:

I like certain authors (William Gibson, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, etc.). I’ll basically buy every new book from about 7-10 different authors. Give me a better way to track new books from a favorite author.

At one point in the past I created Amazon email alerts for new books from a few specific authors, but then you started sending me emails for “related” authors. As far as I could tell, there was no way to get alerts about new books without getting the unwanted “you might also like this author” emails. If you let me watch specific authors, I’d buy the new John Brockman book from Amazon instead of stumbling across the book in a bookstore.

While you’re at it, provide an RSS feed for that “new books by this author” info instead of as an email.

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Five tweaks Amazon needs to make

The Amazon search function is poor, has always been poor, and seems never to improve.

Why not use Google?