Amazon limits full-text search

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As a result of an authors' groups worries, that Amazon.com's text-search service could slash book sales, the online retailer has decided to disable the printing feature in its newly introduced service.

[blockquote]The service lets users type in any keyword and receive results for all the pages and titles of various books that contain that term. Previously, users could search for a book by author, subject or keyword, but could not search the books' contents. The search feature works with around 120,000 titles from 190 publishers, which translates into some 33 million pages of searchable text. [/blockquote]
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This was partly because it was a simple matter to locate and print pages or sections of a book -- something that might particularly appeal to students. Users are only able to view the two pages appearing before and after their search terms

Yeah, thats right, *******s. I am fed up with having to pay over 30 quid for books where I only need to read one sodding page. 1 or 2 books per module, 12 modules, 18 books average = 576 pounds. No, I don't think so. They can't justify 32 pound per book when they know it is in demand. They are a bigger rip-off than music albums.

NS