How Amazon.com Changed Research (And Then Made Us Into Research)
"Devices and technologies that have become second nature to us - scanners and searchable PDFs, for example - first became familiar to many through Amazon. So did disintermediation: the sudden realization that" - thanks to the Search This Book feature - "we could work our way into a subject without taking a box of file cards to a reference room, riffling through catalogs and consulting librarians." The Nation 05/29/12

Posted May 31, 2012 11:54 PM