Subject: Amazon.com Enables Online Browsing
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:54:00 -0400
Message-Id: <p0510030ab7f39fb8b4ba@[192.100.21.22]> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:54:00 -0400 To: ninch-announce@ninch.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: Amazon.com Enables Online Browsing
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October 17, 2001
Amazon.com Enables Online Browsing
http://link.ixs1.net/s/link/click?rc=al&rti=l54986&si=919192124
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011010/100089_1.html
>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>
>To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>Subject: Amazon provides browsing
>
>Of possible interest.
>___________________________________
>
>Amazon Takes First, Small, Step Towards Online Browsing
>
>For well over a year now online booksellers have been looking at a variety
>of "online browsing" technologies. Yesterday Amazon introduced what sounds
>like a watered down version of this idea with their "Look Inside the Book"
>feature, available on 25,000 titles to start. Visitors can now see back
>covers, flaps, the table of contents, the introduction, and occasionally
>more (like sample pages, first chapters, or images for illustrated books).
>
>The Amazon release spins the development as allowing surfers to "flip
>through the inside pages of thousands of books," but it's not clear that
>reader can browse the pages they'd actually want to see. In their own
>words, the site will "feature a vast selection of interior pages from over
>25,000 titles, with thousands more titles to come. Whether browsing
>recipes found in cookbooks, illustrations from children's books, full
>indices of medical textbooks, first chapters from mystery novels or the
>millions of other pages available, Amazon.com customers can now explore
>these pages to help them find the right book."
>
>But the initiative sounds far short of true online browsing-which would be
>great for readers, but might still be misread as threatening by
>publishers. Amazon's Steve Kessel indicated "It's something that customers
>have been telling us they'd like to do. It's sort of the next logical step
>for them in terms of making a purchase decision."
>
>Amazon release
>http://link.ixs1.net/s/link/click?rc=al&rti=l54986&si=919192124
>
>Yahoo story
>http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011010/100089_1.html
>
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Amazon provides browsing
Of possible interest.
___________________________________
Amazon Takes First, Small, Step Towards Online Browsing
For well over a year now online booksellers have been looking at a variety
of "online browsing" technologies. Yesterday Amazon introduced what sounds
like a watered down version of this idea with their "Look Inside the Book"
feature, available on 25,000 titles to start. Visitors can now see back
covers, flaps, the table of contents, the introduction, and occasionally
more (like sample pages, first chapters, or images for illustrated books).
The Amazon release spins the development as allowing surfers to "flip
through the inside pages of thousands of books," but it's not clear that
reader can browse the pages they'd actually want to see. In their own
words, the site will "feature a vast selection of interior pages from over
25,000 titles, with thousands more titles to come. Whether browsing
recipes found in cookbooks, illustrations from children's books, full
indices of medical textbooks, first chapters from mystery novels or the
millions of other pages available, Amazon.com customers can now explore
these pages to help them find the right book."
But the initiative sounds far short of true online browsing-which would be
great for readers, but might still be misread as threatening by
publishers. Amazon's Steve Kessel indicated "It's something that customers
have been telling us they'd like to do. It's sort of the next logical step
for them in terms of making a purchase decision."
Amazon release
http://link.ixs1.net/s/link/click?rc=al&rti=l54986&si=919192124
Yahoo story
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011010/100089_1.html
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