Cliff Urr writes “It appears Amazon has made available an extraordinary linking service using bibliographic entries from books in the Amazon web site. I noticed this on the blog of Rageboy (real name Chris Locke, one of the Cluetrain Manifesto signers).
He writes:
“For example, the Art in Theory series (there are three volumes) is fantastic — a history of art in documents that defined, described and shaped various schools and movements from 1648 to the 21st century. I’m hot on the trail of Clement Greenberg and aestheticism at the moment.
But that’s not the amazing part. Click through to Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. When you get there, page down a bit till you see this:
Cliff Urr writes “It appears Amazon has made available an extraordinary linking service using bibliographic entries from books in the Amazon web site. I noticed this on the blog of Rageboy (real name Chris Locke, one of the Cluetrain Manifesto signers).
He writes:
“For example, the Art in Theory series (there are three volumes) is fantastic — a history of art in documents that defined, described and shaped various schools and movements from 1648 to the 21st century. I’m hot on the trail of Clement Greenberg and aestheticism at the moment.
But that’s not the amazing part. Click through to Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. When you get there, page down a bit till you see this:This book cites 132 books:
· Art in Theory: 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas by Charles Harrison on 6 pages
· Art and Social Life by G. Plekhanov on 5 pages
· Three American painters, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella: Fogg Art Museum, 21 April-30 May 1965 by Michael Fried on 5 pages
· Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews by Michael Fried on 5 pages
See all 132 books this book cites
The book titles link to the main book pages, as you’d suspect, but the “on X pages” links go to individual sublinks on that last big list (“See all 132 books this book cites”), and those sublinks go to specifically referenced pages inside the books cited.â€?
He thinks this service “will revolutionize serious research and scholarship.â€? I think he’s onto something. But after some snooping this weekend it seems Amazon has not yet done this for a lot of books, unfortunately, and they have not much advertised the service. They will have to do this bigtime to have a serious impact on the scholarly publishing scene. It will also impact libraries, I think, with respect to fortifying collection development practices. For more of Rageboy/Locke’s comments on this, scroll down the Rageboy site to “Amazon Hypercitesâ€?.”
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