Re: new 'books' section on the M-P website

At 11:34 AM 8/25/99 +0200, you wrote:
>My 2 pesetas worth on buying books online from a European perspective...
>
>I purchase lots of books via the internet, gardening and otherwise. I
>used to use Amazon.com and I always found their service excellent and
>very easy to use. The only serious downside was the postage cost. When
>Amazon.co.uk was set up, this problem was solved to a great extent as
>intra European mail charges are a lot cheaper. I have also used other UK
>based internet stores such as bookshop.co.uk with similar results. A
>bookshop that would ship *either* from Europe or the US would be best.
>Or maybe team up with two of them, one in each continent!
>
>Damian Martin
>Talavera, Spain

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I second that motion purely on principle, seeing as neither I nor most
other users of the internet really need to go to any intervening site to
find bookstores. At the very least, mention should be made of other,
"foreign", as it were, book sources front and centre (note the spelling)
with the Barnes & Noble automatic suggestion feature - an item which I find
most intrusive and irritating and which never fails to make me doubt the
veracity of the information I find on the site.

My privately made suggestion, sent when this issue first arose, was that
subscribers with commercial (or non-) ventures that may be of even small
interest to Medit-plant people provide the revenue in return for a
promotional forum on the site. This could be in the form of sponsorship of
particular pages, or whatever. There's lots of models from the non-profit
sector that impinge less on the altruistic purity of the venture than does
B&N.

Respectfully,





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