[Wikipedia-l] The Fact Factory: a Wikipedia knock-off

[Tom Parmenter]

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|Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 08:49:10 -0600
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|At 01:27 AM 8/11/02 -0400, Tom  Parmenter wrote:
|>
|>I looked up Louis Armstrong, which I wrote much of in wikipedia, and
|>found no article, but ads for ten different Louis Armstrong books, and
|>ads for a bunch of other books.  It seems to be an attempt to get
|>people to go to Amazon.  Makes me think twice about the proposal to
|>make the wikipedia's ISBN links go to a bookstore, even though it is
|>really not the same.  
|
|Making the ISBN links go to a book store search engine giving you
|comparative prices is very different from Amazon links which usually are
|quite a ways down the list if you search for comparative prices especially
|if you add shipping. I think Addall or ABE search links are pretty helpful
|since they can return enormous amounts of useful information.  Amazon and
|BN live off book buyers ignorance.
|
|Fred Bauder

Well, maybe, but BN/Amazon are a well of information for Wikipedia
writers too.  I usually get my ISBN numbers there, check book titles,
etc.

Tom P.