{"id":163,"date":"2005-05-05T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2005-05-05T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T10:22:28","slug":"judging_a_book_by_its_contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/judging_a_book_by_its_contents\/","title":{"rendered":"judging a book by its contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/ebiz\/0,1272,67430,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1\">article<\/a> in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired News<\/a> discussing what Amazon might be up to with features like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/10197021\/102-8457291-3476901\">Search Inside the Book<\/a>, automated recommendations, and user-augmented content such as reader reviews, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/customer-images\/add-image-to-asin.html\/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_add\/102-8457291-3476901?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;asin=0142000086\">customer images<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/542566\/102-8457291-3476901\">Listmania<\/a> etc. Are these just a bunch of fun toys, or is it all beginning to add up into something big? The article focuses primarily on fancy new search functions &#8211; Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs), text stats, and concordance (see &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/amazon_inching.html\">amazon: inching toward semantic<\/a>&#8220;) &#8211; and includes a few remarks on the subject from if:book..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this article in today&#8217;s Wired News discussing what Amazon might be up to with features like Search Inside the Book, automated recommendations, and user-augmented content such as reader reviews, customer images, Listmania etc. Are these just a bunch of fun toys, or is it all beginning to add up into something big? The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}