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Amazon's Book Search Hits a Snag

Posted by timothy on from the oopsie dept.

The Importance of writes "Yesterday, Slashdot readers discussed Amazon's brand new, technically impressive and highly useful book search feature that lets users search the full text of over 120,000 books. Today, the Authors Guild is saying that the publishers don't have the right to let Amazon do this. Uh oh."

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  1. Re:odd way to read by cicho · · Score: 5, Informative

    Amazon requires that you supply your CC number before you can search. (Probably happens automatically for those who already have an account.) Then there's a limit on the nuymber of pages per book they'll show you (up to 20%). So to get the whole book you'd have to have at least 5 separate accounts and 5 separate CC numbers. This Wired article has more.

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