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