[WEB4LIB] Re: Linking to Amazon.com for Big Bucks

Dan Lester dan at 84.com
Fri Oct 22 13:56:42 EDT 1999


At 10:04 AM 10/22/99 -0700, George Porter wrote:
>We've spent some inconclusive time wrestling with the demons of free
>enterprise, revenue streams, fairness and ethics.  Charles Hobbs noted:
>
>If I was building such a catalog today, I'd add <commercial vendors snipped
>for brevity> as long as they had an ISBN-searchable database... (I might
>even set up a script that pre-reads the pages....)
>
>Acses <http://www.acses.com> does just that.  They do an on-the-fly ISBN
>lookup from a wide variety of online book purveyors, international in scope.
>Aside from the lame spelling, the service has been useful to me both
>personally and professionally.

They got rid of the lame spelling and are now www.dealpilot.com

dan



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