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No dice. Too overbearing and flashy... Swear to god, no pun intended.

• mechanical_fish 18y ago
  Yep, Amazon has absolutely nothing to worry about. This looks and behaves like a CD-ROM from 1997. Vast amounts of slow-loading overdesigned chartjunk. The home page is stuffed with lovingly Photoshopped filler material, author photos, and the covers of books. It does seem like a great website for people who don't like to read. A search on "Wallace Stevens" at borders.com brings me to this page: http://www.borders.com/online/store/SearchResults?keyword=wallace+stevens&type=0&simple=1 http://www.borders.com/online/store/SearchResults?keyword=wa... Prices are shown for only three books. The rest are shown as covers only; to see prices or titles you have to hover over them and wait for the slow-zooming JS popup. No user ratings anywhere, possibly because this site is ten years late to the party and doesn't have a database of user ratings like Amazon's. No used-book prices. You can get to a used-book site from Borders, but it comes complete with a warning popup (!) which tells you that it's a separate site requiring a separate login. The equivalent Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-8248473-4108915?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wallace+stevens&x=0&y=0 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-8248473-4108915?url... ... makes it instantly apparent that Amazon's new-book prices are 20 to 40% lower... to say nothing of the used book prices, which are right there for comparison. The best that can be said for this site is that it may have met its primary design criterion: "Do not be Amazon, and make sure people know that we're not Amazon."