Heard on another list about this raising controversy with the Authors
Guild who fear the erosion of sales in reference and cookery books...
read more at: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39117410,00.htm
Ellie
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:55:03 -0000 Ian Winship <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Amazon.com (but not the UK site) has a new service launched last week called
> "Search Inside the Book" which allows you to search the full-text - over 33
> million pages - from over 120,000 titles from some 190 publishers, including
> Wiley, Time Warner Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Inc., Random House, Inc.,
> Publishers Group West, Incorporated, McGraw-Hill Professional, and
> HarperCollins Publishers.
>
> How Does "Search Inside the Book" Work?
>
> + Access via any Amazon search box.
> + Enter your search terms.
> + No advanced search capabilities or search limits are available.
> + A typical list of titles is returned. However, some titles contain extra
> information and links. They appear directly below the pricing information
> and begin with the word "exceprt." Click here and you'll see a scanned image
> of the page with your search term(s) highlighted.
> + You'll need to be registered with Amazon.Com to access the full-text.
> + Amazon is using optical character recognition technology to find words
> embedded in the scanned images.
> + Searching for phrases seems a bit imprecise. Although I searched "golden
> retriever" (and used quotation marks), hits were on the term "golden".
> + Implied "AND" between terms.
> + It's also possible to find a title and then search within it. For example,
> note the "search inside this book" label above the cover image.
> + An illustrated example page is available
> (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/10197021/ref%3Dsib_merch_gw/1
> 02-7531072-8771324).
> An FAQ is also available
> (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/10197041/102-7531072-8771324)
> .
>
> (These details taken from http://www.resourceshelf.com/)
>
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> Ian Winship, Electronic Services Manager
> Learning Resources, Northumbria University
> City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
> email: [log in to unmask]
> tel: 0191 227 4150 fax: 0191 227 4563
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Ellie Clement
Subject Librarian (Engineering, Design & Technology)
JB Priestley Library
University of Bradford
BRADFORD
BD7 1DP
tel: 01274 233374
email: [log in to unmask]
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