Damoc1970
I applaud your desire to do something positive, but the thing is, you're following a path that's well-trodden, and mostly, by self-published authors.
A display site is a site where authors post either their manuscript (or sections of their ms.) in hopes of attracting a publisher, or they link to their self-published book.
Here's
a piece about one kind of display site, written by Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware.
If you look at the listings in the Bewares area of this site via
Google's Advanced Search you'll see lots of listings for [Display site].
Those are all sites that have had the same idea as you.
It doesn't work. It's not how people buy books, or find books to read or buy.
The way readers find books to buy is that they look for books by authors they know (first option, usually), they look for book reviews or book lists by trusted curators.
This is why it's really helpful to have readers read and post reviews about books, not only on review sites and blogs, but on sites like Goodreads, Library Thing, and yes, Amazon.
Also, as a general note about terminology, the phrase "traditional publishing" isn't terribly useful, because it means different things to different people.
Trade publishing refers to publishing books wherein the author submits to an agent or publisher; the author is paid an advance, and the book is edited, designed, produced and sold by the publishers. Once the book sells enough to have earned back the advance, the author is paid royalties.
Vanity publishing refers to books wherein the author pays the publisher to produce the book; typically this does not result in quality production values, has a high cover price, and there is limited (almost non existent) distribution. It is unlikely that the book will be available on the shelves of bookstores or libraries.
There are also vanity publishers masquerading as trade publishers; they tend to want money from the author, and often demand that the author buy his or her own books.