Ryan, it's just a little experiment in information design: if you make it easier and quicker to search, browse and sort data, will people use it?
Sometimes if feels like overkill to use Amazon if you just want a quick update on books for a specific subject. That's the reason for this site... if and as long as people use it, we'll keep it up. :) Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] [FYI] phpbooks.com > Hi, > Tell me if I am missing something but, since all your site is doing is > pulling data/books from amazon....why wont someone just goto amazon's book > category type "php" and buy direct? > I mean if someone is into programming/php they will have enough brains (most > of the time) to do that much right? > > BTW, nice design. > > Cheers, > -Ryan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:24 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] [FYI] phpbooks.com > > > > > > we set up a new resource for organizing all books on PHP in a > > > quick-to- > > > > scan, > > > > Google-like center. Hope you enjoy it. > > > > > > > > http://www.phpbooks.com > > > > > > There's more than that, isn't there? Also the "PHP/MySQL Programming for > > > the Absolute Beginner" book shows a picture of a Perl book... :) > > > > The complete data is retrieved daily from Amazon.com (with their > Webservices > > API) using the keyword "php" for the search. If anyone is interested, I > can > > make available parts of the source code. > > > > Mark > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
