From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Fri May 24 09:44:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 24 May 2002 16:44:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 13083 invoked from network); 24 May 2002 16:44:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 May 2002 16:44:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 May 2002 16:44:01 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g4OGi1118627 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 10:44:01 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:44:01 -0600 (MDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] amazon.com & the complete lojban language In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020523133139.027dbce0@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek On Thu, 23 May 2002, lojbab wrote: > We considered doing so for our own Web Page, but have "never got around t= o > it", though I now have a scanner. Since the book is a solid color with > only the title on it, there isn't a lot to see in a simple cover scan, bu= t > I guess it could be done. People like pictures, even if they're boring. > We haven't put in a link to them; why would they link to us? Well, when you're amazon.com, you don't really need one more reciprocating link. They're interested in selling books. People like to know about the books they're buying, which is why Amazon.com provides copious reviews for books. (When such reviews are available.) However, I don't think they provide active links to web pages, even for major books by major publishers. (Which was more my point. I don't think they want to make it convinent for people to leave their site. Which makes sense.) > It isn't like they make any money selling our books. No, but they're still quite to be selling it. A book bought from them is one less book bought from someone else. (And if you're already shopping there, maybe you'll get something else. Standard retail practice.) - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose