Comments on: Linking First and Second Editions of a Book in Amazon http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html Mon, 30 Mar 2015 04:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: ClickBrain http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155789 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:04:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155789 Wish there was an upgrade path for ebooks..

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By: bsoist http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155524 Mon, 13 May 2013 16:16:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155524 Right. I thought of this when Brad posted about this before. And linking the books would be an additional feature – a way to see the difference between the versions. Perhaps a way to compare the TOCs would be a nice feature too.

But the problem is that those are things that are good for the readers and authors. Apparently, what “we” want is not being considered at all.

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By: bfeld http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155502 Sun, 12 May 2013 19:28:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155502 Thx – fixed!

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By: ClickBrain http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155476 Sat, 11 May 2013 16:45:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155476 Strange that the price for Kindle edition is only 56 cents less than print.

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By: ClickBrain http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155474 Sat, 11 May 2013 16:43:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155474 Hey Brad, your link to your book is broken. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist – http://www.feld.com/startuprev.com/venturedealsbook2. Goes to Page Not Found. It looks like eliminating the path from your blog makes it work – http://startuprev.com/venturedealsbook2

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By: TamiMForman http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155428 Thu, 09 May 2013 15:51:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155428 Book publishing is such a weird world. I worked at Simon & Schuster in the late 90s, then left to join the internet revolution. A few years later (less than 5) I interviewed at HarperCollins for a marketing position. The publisher’s comment was that I’d have to “relearn” publishing. I thought “Sweetheart, it’s ain’t brain surgery.”

All’s well that end’s well, however. HC’s loss was Return Path’s gain and ten years later I’m *so* glad I didn’t go back to ink-on-dead-trees. I still love books, but it’s a bad business, for many reasons.

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By: John Lynn http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155421 Wed, 08 May 2013 23:21:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155421 I think even AirBnB’s implementation could work. They have reviews of the specific place, and then an option to see reviews of the host’s other places. I could see a similar interface that lets you see reviews of the existing edition or a tab to view reviews of the previous edition. Too bad they can’t do something so simple.

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By: DaveJ http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155420 Wed, 08 May 2013 22:57:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155420 Actually, this is a deeper problem than you may think. The problem is that “linking” is too simplistic a notion. As pointed out in the email, it is not at all uncommon for new editions of books to have significantly different content – and it’s not always clear which one is better, either. This also happens in non-book products – they have a new version, and the reviews get all mixed up, and you can’t tell what you’re looking at. There is no easy and general way to determine whether the reviews written for a previous edition are actually applicable to the new one.

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By: Brian McMahon http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155419 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:23:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155419 One option that Amazon should consider comes from the App and iTunes Stores from Apple. You can view an average of all versions of an app and then switch between the current version and all past versions. Nice way to maintain reviews/comments/stars but have some separation for the differences in versions.

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By: StevenHB http://www.feld.com/archives/2013/05/linking-books-in-amazon-a-journey-in-the.html#comment-155417 Wed, 08 May 2013 16:06:00 +0000 http://local.feld.com/?p=8456#comment-155417 You’d think that they could qualify the link between two editions. It’s not like the concept of a second or subsequent edition is new. In fact, wouldn’t Amazon want to advertise on the page for the first edition that there’s a newer one? And wouldn’t a shopper want to see a page listing all the editions of a book, just as I can click on the author’s name to see all books written by him/her? They already qualify reviews by indicating that a review shown for a given edition was actually posted for another.

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