Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature

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From: Deborah Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 12:52:39 PST 

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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:52:39 -0800
From: Deborah Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature

>Just an update on the book content searching feature in Amazon...
>Amazon has disabled its full-text book search feature. You can
>search within books, but when you click the link to the excerpt,
>you'll get a message "We're sorry. The Web address you entered is
>not a functioning page on our site"
>
The Authors' Guild has protested.

Stay tuned.
Deb 

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