Tag Archives: Search Inside the Book

Plugging your book into social-networking sites

By Steve Weber | Published: June 26, 2007

Here’s a follow-up recent posts about tags, MySpace, and Amazon’s Web 2.0 features like book recommendations and Search Inside the Book. Everyone knows these fancy features help people discover your book on Amazon. But these features can help people find your book outside Amazon, too. Here’s an example from my experience: A few months ago [...]

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Tags vs. Categories: Which Amazon feature is more useful?

By Steve Weber | Published: June 23, 2007

Which Amazon features are the most effective in encouraging consumers to buy books? Many people say it’s book reviews and Search Inside the Book. In a recent discussion, one publisher asserted that Search Inside is obviously Amazon’s most effective feature. It allows browsers to mimick the same thing they enjoy doing at a real bookstore [...]

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