November 6, 2008 You say Windowshop. I say Shelf Browse.
If you haven’t seen the new Amazon Windowshop site, you gotta click on over right away. This is where we are going. It’s a complete experience. The user has complete control plus it has audio (music and spoken word) AND it includes great CD and book cover images as well as movie clips. Using space bar to get a bigger view of the items grouped together. Click the space bar again to zoom in. It’s fun, it looks great and it walks and talks and sings!
Oh, and you can click on stuff to buy it or download it. So, it’s simple too.
Now, while you are there…think about this. Imagine that (as you click the right arrow key) you are scrolling through material from your catalog in Dewey order (okay, imagine something even better than Dewey). Using the up arrow key takes you to related material (e.g. “See Also”).
I’m thinking this would make a very nice addition to Amazon’s Web Services product offering.
Lori,
Thanks for pointing this out! It’s at http://windowshop.com, for those who would like a quick link (couldn’t find it on Amazon, curiously…so had to search for it.).
The new John Lennon biography just exploded onto the screen. And of course, I did the usual–I hopped over to the KCLS website to place a hold on it.
I don’t know how we do it, but we’ve somehow got to take great bookfinding tools like this and eliminate that total jump to the library website in order to do library business on the title.
Anyway–this is a very cool tool.
Thanks, David. I also fixed the link on my post. Pretty cool isn’t it!?