I would like to see ISBNs linked to AddAll.com rather than Pricescan.com. I think the selection of bookstores is better including used books and as AddAll is devoted solely to books less of a distraction.
To test the two alternatives go to:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/creative_accounting
The book at the bottom of the page temporarily has two ISBN links, the top one to AddAll, the bottom to Pricescan.
Fred Bauder
|From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net |Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:28:06 -0600 | |I would like to see ISBNs linked to AddAll.com rather than Pricescan.com. I |think the selection of bookstores is better including used books and as |AddAll is devoted solely to books less of a distraction. | |To test the two alternatives go to: | |http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/creative_accounting | |The book at the bottom of the page temporarily has two ISBN links, the top |one to AddAll, the bottom to Pricescan. | |
I prefer Pricescan.com. It has stores that AddAll doesn't -- alldirect, doublediscount, a1books, alltextbooks4less, page1book, then I stopped checking -- it allows sorting by book price and total cost, which helps, and, despite requiring an extra click, has a cleaner looking interface.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
Maybe we should have both.
Tom Parmenter wrote:
|From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net |Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:28:06 -0600 | |I would like to see ISBNs linked to AddAll.com rather than Pricescan.com. I |think the selection of bookstores is better including used books and as |AddAll is devoted solely to books less of a distraction. | |To test the two alternatives go to: | |http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/creative_accounting | |The book at the bottom of the page temporarily has two ISBN links, the top |one to AddAll, the bottom to Pricescan. | |
I prefer Pricescan.com. It has stores that AddAll doesn't -- alldirect, doublediscount, a1books, alltextbooks4less, page1book, then I stopped checking -- it allows sorting by book price and total cost, which helps, and, despite requiring an extra click, has a cleaner looking interface.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
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At 02:44 PM 8/28/02 -0700, Jimbo wrote:
Maybe we should have both.
The way it is now this coding "ISBN 0000000000" gives pricescan through the wiki software. To create an AddAll link you have to create a special link that works around the Wiki coding. What I want is to at least allow how to create a wiki link be in the ISBN article, but at best putting AddAll into the wiki coding instead of pricescan.
Fred
Tom Parmenter wrote:
|From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net |Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:28:06 -0600 | |I would like to see ISBNs linked to AddAll.com rather than
Pricescan.com. I
|think the selection of bookstores is better including used books and as |AddAll is devoted solely to books less of a distraction. | |To test the two alternatives go to: | |http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/creative_accounting | |The book at the bottom of the page temporarily has two ISBN links, the top |one to AddAll, the bottom to Pricescan. | |
I prefer Pricescan.com. It has stores that AddAll doesn't -- alldirect, doublediscount, a1books, alltextbooks4less, page1book, then I stopped checking -- it allows sorting by book price and total cost, which helps, and, despite requiring an extra click, has a cleaner looking interface.
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|From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net |Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:20:50 -0600 | |At 02:44 PM 8/28/02 -0700, Jimbo wrote: |>Maybe we should have both. | |The way it is now this coding "ISBN 0000000000" gives pricescan through the |wiki software. To create an AddAll link you have to create a special link |that works around the Wiki coding. What I want is to at least allow how to |create a wiki link be in the ISBN article, but at best putting AddAll into |the wiki coding instead of pricescan. | |Fred
Other people should perform the comparison. In addition to your links, I tested both services with a fairly hard-to-find book, my big Spanish dictionary, Clave Diccionario, and they were about the same for new copies, but only AddAll had used copies, and at about 50% of the new pricess they both listed, which were also way below list..
If AddAll *always* has used books and PriceScan *never* has used books, then we should switch to AddAll as being more wiki. If they *both* have used books from time to time, PriceScan has a more useful interface.
I think they are both totally cool in terms of the speed and breadth of their information. The 21st century really has some things going.
Tom P.
| |> |>Tom Parmenter wrote: |> |>> |From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net |>> |Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:28:06 -0600 |>> | |>> |I would like to see ISBNs linked to AddAll.com rather than |Pricescan.com. I |>> |think the selection of bookstores is better including used books and as |>> |AddAll is devoted solely to books less of a distraction. |>> | |>> |To test the two alternatives go to: |>> | |>> |http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/creative_accounting |>> | |>> |The book at the bottom of the page temporarily has two ISBN links, the top |>> |one to AddAll, the bottom to Pricescan. |>> | |>> | |>> |>> I prefer Pricescan.com. It has stores that AddAll doesn't -- |>> alldirect, doublediscount, a1books, alltextbooks4less, page1book, then |>> I stopped checking -- it allows sorting by book price and total cost, |>> which helps, and, despite requiring an extra click, has a cleaner |>> looking interface. |>> |>> Tom Parmenter |>> Ortolan88 |>> |>> [Wikipedia-l] |>> To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: |>> http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l |>[Wikipedia-l] |>To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: |>http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l |> | |[Wikipedia-l] |To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: |http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l |
Fred Bauder wrote:
At 02:44 PM 8/28/02 -0700, Jimbo wrote:
Maybe we should have both.
The way it is now this coding "ISBN 0000000000" gives pricescan through the wiki software. To create an AddAll link you have to create a special link that works around the Wiki coding. What I want is to at least allow how to create a wiki link be in the ISBN article, but at best putting AddAll into the wiki coding instead of pricescan.
Right, yes, what I meant was: maybe we should change the software so that ISBN wiki code creates two links, one to addall and one to pricescan.
--Jimbo
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
The way it is now this coding "ISBN 0000000000" gives pricescan through the wiki software. To create an AddAll link you have to create a special link that works around the Wiki coding. What I want is to at least allow how to create a wiki link be in the ISBN article, but at best putting AddAll into the wiki coding instead of pricescan.
Right, yes, what I meant was: maybe we should change the software so that ISBN wiki code creates two links, one to addall and one to pricescan.
Perhaps the ISBN number might link to a dynamically generated page which will explicitly link to several such sites, listed by name?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
|From: Brion VIBBER brion@pobox.com |User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 |X-Accept-Language: eo, ia, en-us, en, fr |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com |X-BeenThere: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com |X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 |Precedence: bulk |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com |List-Help: mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=help |List-Post: mailto:wikipedia-l@nupedia.com |List-Subscribe: http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l, | mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=subscribe |List-Id: An unmoderated discussion of all things Wikipedia <wikipedia-l.nupedia.com> |List-Unsubscribe: http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l, | mailto:wikipedia-l-request@nupedia.com?subject=unsubscribe |List-Archive: http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/ |Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:38:09 -0800 | |Jimmy Wales wrote: |> Fred Bauder wrote: |>>The way it is now this coding "ISBN 0000000000" gives pricescan through the |>>wiki software. To create an AddAll link you have to create a special link |>>that works around the Wiki coding. What I want is to at least allow how to |>>create a wiki link be in the ISBN article, but at best putting AddAll into |>>the wiki coding instead of pricescan. |> |> Right, yes, what I meant was: maybe we should change the software so |> that ISBN wiki code creates two links, one to addall and one to |> pricescan. | |Perhaps the ISBN number might link to a dynamically generated page which |will explicitly link to several such sites, listed by name? | |-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Why make it more complicated?
If AddAll includes used as well as new books, let's go AddAll. Since it isn't a link, but a service provided at a different level, we could change it again any time a better choice for listing books comes along.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
Brion VIBBER wrote:
Perhaps the ISBN number might link to a dynamically generated page which will explicitly link to several such sites, listed by name?
Isn't that exactly what pricescan already does?
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Brion VIBBER wrote:
Perhaps the ISBN number might link to a dynamically generated page which will explicitly link to several such sites, listed by name?
Isn't that exactly what pricescan already does?
Does PriceScan list other sites that do roughly what PriceScan does, but which also list sites that PriceScan does not?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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