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Amazon’s Search Inside the Book

by Barbara J. Feldman December 30, 2003

Joel Mokyr, professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, compares the importance of Amazon.com’s new Search Inside the Book capability with the invention of the encyclopedia. To search the contents of 120,000 books, simply enter a phrase into Amazon’s regular search box. For more details on how this works, see Amazon’s help page.

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Product Manuals

by Barbara J. Feldman December 1, 2003

There should be corollary to Murphy’s Law (“If anything can go wrong, it will”) that states “If anything goes wrong, you won’t be able to find the product manual.” But help is just a few clicks away. Live Manuals and Amazon.com both offer free user manuals for many manufacturers. And, last but not least, many [...]

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