|X-Sender: fredbaud@mail.ctelco.net |From: Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net |Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" |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: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 08:49:10 -0600 | |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.