Amazon Plan Would Allow Text Search Of Books

Posted by Hemos on Monday July 21, 2003 @02:15AM from the interesting-ideas dept.

emmastory writes "The New York Times is running a story (free registration required) about a new development at Amazon - they plan to assemble "a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction." Users would only be able to read a certain portion of the text from any one book, but it sounds promising nonetheless. The Times article suggests that this is part of a larger strategy to compete with Google and Yahoo by making Amazon an authoritative source of information on everything book-related."

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Re:Brilliant idea by tomstdenis · 2003-07-21 02:42 · Score: 1, Redundant

scanned excerpt. In real book store I can read any section *I* want, not just some flashy section.

So unless they put the entire book online it won't be anything like a real fucking bookstore!

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