Blogcritics Comments on "Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!

Comment by Corinna Hasofferett on "Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!

Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:35:48 EST

and a net gain for blogcritics and blogers at large, which in turn helps the industry: at my last post here, thanks to Amazon's new toy I was able to find books relating to an important authority in the Israeli Army and politics history. No book of his seems to have been translated into English, but there was a very long list of books which mentioned him plenty. ]]>

Comment by Eric Olsen on "Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:51:16 EST

exactly, concerns over this are - as usual - greatly overwrought. I see a net gain for publishers and authors. Give a little, gain a lot. ]]>

Comment by Michelle on "Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:35:29 EST

Interesting questions, but would I go through all the hassle of printing 20% of the book as screenshots, wait 30 days and go on with the rest till I have the book complete? It's so much easier to enter a bookstore and buy the damn thing;-) ]]>

Comment by Chad Orzel on "Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!

Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:17:01 EST

Of course, if Google is to be believed, there are already in excess of twenty thousand potato gratin recipes on the Web. Maybe that specific one isn't in the list (I don't know, as I don't really care enough to scan all 21,000 entries), but you don't need Amazon's help to do away with most of the need for cookboks. ]]>

Comment by Eric Olsen on "Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!

Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:31:24 EST

Joe , thanks for this as it is a hot topic. I don't think it will do any harm, either. The sections available around the search item is limited and will function like a 30-second sampling of a song, which pretty much everyone now agrees helps sales, as opposed to file sharing entire songs, which may or may not help/hurt sales depending of who paid for the study. I think it's all good! Yeay ]]>

Comment by Mark Saleski on "Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people!

Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:21:44 EST

i don't think it's gonna dismantle anything. anybody who will snag, say, a recipe from a book without buying it wouldn't have bought the book in the first place. ]]>