Tom
30th Jul 2004, 05:25 pm
Have a look at the the A9 Search Box (http://a9.com/-/company/whatsCool.jsp). The results come from Google but Amazon provide enhancements. For example, they let you search INSIDE the books they are now obtaining from publishers in electronic format. The A9 toolbar also gives you the Alexa data on websites (traffic, ranking etc) which is well worth having.
I have three current publishing contracts with the same firm. The first two (1996 and 1998) leave the electronic rights with me. The third (2004) gives them electronic rights + rights to publish by all future technologies which might be invented at any time in the future! As to whether this includes publication on Amazon - I don't know. The difficulty for them is that they would have to pay me money for the rights to be exercisable (I think!) and for that, it would be necessary to obtain money from Amazon. Interesting. Another point of interest is that the money I get from paper publishing is very much less than from electronic publishing.
Re A9, try typing in Cadtutor and then go to Site Info (for some inexplicable reason, they say the site is 'very slow').
For me, it is interesting to type 'garden history' into A9 and then compare the Site Info for the top five sites. This (1) lets me know what type of pepole are visiting my site [more landscape architects and fewer garden folk than I would have expected] (2) lets me puzzle overy why the Museum of Garden History and the Garden History Society rank higher than me when they seem to have less traffic and fewer links! Maybe they have done better on keyword density - or maybe the links they have are more garden history related than mine - or maybe their links contain the words 'garden' and 'history' in the anchor text.
I have three current publishing contracts with the same firm. The first two (1996 and 1998) leave the electronic rights with me. The third (2004) gives them electronic rights + rights to publish by all future technologies which might be invented at any time in the future! As to whether this includes publication on Amazon - I don't know. The difficulty for them is that they would have to pay me money for the rights to be exercisable (I think!) and for that, it would be necessary to obtain money from Amazon. Interesting. Another point of interest is that the money I get from paper publishing is very much less than from electronic publishing.
Re A9, try typing in Cadtutor and then go to Site Info (for some inexplicable reason, they say the site is 'very slow').
For me, it is interesting to type 'garden history' into A9 and then compare the Site Info for the top five sites. This (1) lets me know what type of pepole are visiting my site [more landscape architects and fewer garden folk than I would have expected] (2) lets me puzzle overy why the Museum of Garden History and the Garden History Society rank higher than me when they seem to have less traffic and fewer links! Maybe they have done better on keyword density - or maybe the links they have are more garden history related than mine - or maybe their links contain the words 'garden' and 'history' in the anchor text.