Bookfinder Sold to ABE (Ouch?)
Archive: Online bookselling
I suspect Bookfinder being sold to ABE feels like a kick in the stomach to many of us in the trade.
Despite Amazon's A9 you don't think of an impartial search service mixing well with a vested commercial interest.
And I can only wonder how well Anirvan's technical gifts and competence will blend with ABE's abilities.
I'm just going to hope he got lots of cash and find the work satisfying.
And mention the one thing I wish Bookfinder had: the ability to specify the publisher of the book. You try checking for a certain edition of the Arabian Nights without it.
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My thanks,
Richard
1 · Posted by: RebekB on November 22, 2005 02:26 PM
Bookfinder is a great search engine, but I have to agree — publisher would make things much easier. Also date range would be incredibly useful, if you are trying to narrow down a search to firsts or early editions, given that “first edition” as a selection has practically no impact nowadays on reducing the #s of listings that turn up.