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Surprises

by Mike Masnick

Fri, Oct 24th 2003 10:08am





No Searching Inside O'Reilly Books

from the didn't-expect-that dept

theodp writes "Even though he said he was 'blown away' by Amazon's new Search Inside the Book feature, which allows Amazon visitors who supply credit card info to search and browse for words on more than 33 million pages of over 120,000 books, Tim O'Reilly has decided not to participate in the program for now. 'If they end up being a Google for published content...we need to think better about what publishers get out of it,' he said." The link is for the WSJ, so you have to pay to read the story. Anyway, this is a bit surprising since (a) O'Reilly is usually really open about stuff and (b) Bezos and O'Reilly are pretty close. As for O'Reilly's question, isn't "what publishers get out it" a lot more attention and potential sales? Already the Amazon search feature has made me add a few books to my wishlist.

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    John, Oct 24th, 2003 @ 10:14am

    O'Reilly already allows full text searches for any of it's books within Safari (http://safari.oreilly.com/)

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    Why post a subscription-only article?

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    Anonymous Coward, Oct 24th, 2003 @ 10:46am

    Why the F are you posting a story that only WSJ subscribers can read? Hello?

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    Re: Why post a subscription-only article?

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    Mike (profile), Oct 24th, 2003 @ 10:54am

    It was submitted and the story was interesting, so I posted it - and mentioned that it was sub only. I usually don't, but occassionally you make a decision. On your site, don't post to such stories, but on this site, it is my decision and I did so.

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