read this book online from amazon

Posted by Ian Holsman Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:02:00 GMT

So I decided to give the read the book online feature a try from amazon. for people who don’t know what it is, it allows you to pay a bit more and have a electronic version on their site.

It’s a bit pricy imho ($6 to view a $25 book), but I gave it a try.

do you think I can navigate back to the place where I can actually read it?

talk about hopeless. I eventually found the link on the front door. “your media library” hidden under gifts&lists.

absolutely useless UI experience. no way I will ever have realized that my electronic book was in a “media library”.

so.. for some reason when I actually look at the site i get a blank screen instead of a book.

amazon if your listening your “media” site sucks. i’ve spent over 10 minutes trying to figure out how to read a book using it and i’m stumped.

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Amazon is now doing in-store pickup

Posted by Ian Holsman Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:26:00 GMT

Amazon has introduced another delivery channel (it could have been a while ago.. I'm slow on the uptake sometimes)

they are teaming up with borders so you can now pick up your books from one of their stores. I'd be interested to see what kind of markup they give you on the book (compared to just picking it up from the shelf in the store)

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