Re: [FYI] phpbooks.com

Hey Mark, As an experiment I guess its ok, but as a steady stream of money I had my doubts. Best of luck. Cheers, -Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Owen" <mark@phpbooks.com> To: "Ryan A" <ryan@jumac.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] [FYI] phpbooks.com > 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" <ryan@jumac.com> > To: "Mark Owen" <mark@phpbooks.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> > 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" <mark@phpbooks.com> > > To: <holmes072000@charter.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net> > > 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 > > > > > > > >