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