Dangdang Launches Book Preview

Written by Luyi Chen on January 12, 2009
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Dangdang readDangdang, one of the biggest online book sellers, just launched an ebook preview channel.

Launch your favorite IE, and go to read.dangdang.com. There’re many books to read. But don’t expect it’s so friendly as Google book search. It’s using jpg format. That means you cannot copy the content. It prepares three font size for you, but you can hardly read the content even with the largest size. That’s why I call it a preview channel.

But anyway this is great stuff. Being able to preview the content is very important for online purchasing research. One less reason to go to the real book store.

I think this is the right thing for an online book store or any web site that’s book related, though there’s still room for improvement, like better supporting of Firefox.

I don’t have much expectation in the new 9taps. I want Douban to improve its book researching features. If I will have to read review in one place, and see preview and buy in another place, I will probably just go directly to the latter, especially there’s review there too.

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  3. Anthony on January 21st, 2009 11:47 am

    i don’t think they should just let this previews stay in the state of let viewer know more about before making decision, ebook is another product they should thinking on their future strategy.

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