Amazon full-text index debuts
Wired News: The Great Library of Amazonia
By Gary Wolf. Oct. 23, 2003;
This story will appear in Wired magazine’s upcoming December issue, 11.12.
Over the past spring and summer, the company created an unrivaled digital archive of more than 120,000 books. The goal is to quickly add most of Amazon’s multimillion-title catalog. The entire collection, which went live Oct. 23, is searchable, and every page is viewable.
Other stories include:
An overview at USA Today; and a couple of stories about authors’ views of all this:
Authors may challenge Amazon full-text search by
Matthew Broersma at
ZDNet UK on October 27, 2003;
and Amazon Offer Worries Authors
By David K. Kirkpatrick at NY Times on October 27, 2003.
Publishers Weekly adds this story:
Many Questions Aimed at Amazon Search Program
by Jim Milliot and Steven Zeitchik — 10/27/2003 which says in part:
Amazon, evidently concerned about industry complaints, provided publishers with a cheat sheet listing potential questions from authors or the media, along with suggested answers, such as “What is publishers’ reaction?” (A: “Very positive”).