The Best Search Idea Since Google - How Amazon can make money from books you already own.
Amazon.com's announcement this week of its new "search inside" feature?allowing full-text searches of over 120,000 books in its new digital archive?will probably turn out to be one of those transformative Web moments when a tool suddenly appears and six months later you can't imagine life without it. For logical reasons, Amazon seems to have designed "search inside" to help readers find text in books that they haven't bought yet. But there's just as much opportunity to apply "search inside" to books you already own.
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OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google: OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access.
