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Monday, 21st July 2003

Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books

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Source: NY Times
"Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books"
I wonder what the netLibrary folks have to say about this one? A few comments from ebrary are included at the end of the article. From the article, Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction, according to several publishing executives involved."...Amazon is calling its program Look Inside the Book II, the publishers said. It would expand on a current program that lets shoppers read a table of contents, a first chapter or a few selected pages provided by the publishers of certain books. But Look Inside the Book II would let online browsers search by terms like "Caravaggio," "sans-culottes," or "Osama bin Laden," and then see a list of books mentioning the term along with the sentence that contains it. Browsers could then choose to see several pages around that citation. But to see those pages Amazon would require users to register, and it plans to limit the amount of any single book a browser can view...But Google searches only Web sites, not the contents of books, and Amazon's proposed archive might offer a more authoritative alternative source of information.

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