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		<id>https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Buy_book&amp;diff=14554&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>142.177.108.12: you are trying to make choices that are not up to you - unless the Consumerium License says &quot;no price comparison can be integrated&quot;, then it CAN be</title>
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		<updated>2004-03-01T21:45:51Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;you are trying to make choices that are not up to you - unless the &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/Consumerium_License&quot; title=&quot;Consumerium License&quot;&gt;Consumerium License&lt;/a&gt; says &amp;quot;no price comparison can be integrated&amp;quot;, then it CAN be&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 21:45, 1 March 2004&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;To &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;buy book&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;s without consulting at least some review or comment on them is probably a bad idea.  [[Amazon.com]] has proven that simply compiling reviews and marketing books based on them, and on [[product affinity]], is very effective (they were one of the few [[dotcom]]s to actually survive the bust).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;To &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;buy book&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;s without consulting at least some review or comment on them is probably a bad idea.  [[Amazon.com]] has proven that simply compiling reviews and marketing books based on them, and on [[product affinity]], is very effective (they were one of the few [[dotcom]]s to actually survive the bust).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Consumerium Services]] can obviously and easily support lookup of reviews and other commentary on a book by ISBN-[[barcode]]. A [[friendly retail]] location can be convinced to support [[Consumerium Service access]] onsite to look up related books that the reader might enjoy - boosting sales.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Consumerium Services]] can obviously and easily support lookup of reviews and other commentary on a book by ISBN-[[barcode]]. &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; There is potential for a [[worn device]], possibly with other software that already exists for [[price comparison service|price comparison]], to provide an alternative buying option.  This would not be good for the retail location, but all that Consumerium could do about it would be to make integration easier or harder.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A [[friendly retail]] location can be convinced to support [[Consumerium Service access]] onsite to look up related books that the reader might enjoy - boosting sales&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.  Making price comparison harder might be part of that deal&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Additional value is added by [[faction]] participation, as the reviews can be filtered according to who one trusts in general on buying decisions, not just who one trusts &amp;quot;about books&amp;quot;.  The whole basis for book buying advice may well be [[factionally defined]] and have nothing in common from faction to faction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Additional value is added by [[faction]] participation, as the reviews can be filtered according to who one trusts in general on buying decisions, not just who one trusts &amp;quot;about books&amp;quot;.  The whole basis for book buying advice may well be [[factionally defined]] and have nothing in common from faction to faction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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	<entry>
		<id>https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Buy_book&amp;diff=2669&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>Jukeboksi: Consumerium does _NOT_ do inter-shop price comparisons</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Buy_book&amp;diff=2669&amp;oldid=prev"/>
		<updated>2004-03-01T08:52:27Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Consumerium does _NOT_ do inter-shop price comparisons&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;To &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;buy book&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;s without consulting at least some review or comment on them is probably a bad idea.  [[Amazon.com]] has proven that simply compiling reviews and marketing books based on them, and on [[product affinity]], is very effective (they were one of the few [[dotcom]]s to actually survive the bust).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;To &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;buy book&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;s without consulting at least some review or comment on them is probably a bad idea.  [[Amazon.com]] has proven that simply compiling reviews and marketing books based on them, and on [[product affinity]], is very effective (they were one of the few [[dotcom]]s to actually survive the bust).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Consumerium Services]] can obviously and easily support lookup of reviews and other commentary on a book by [[barcode]]&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, and possibly get a better price on the same book, via a [[worn device]] lookup&lt;/del&gt;. &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt; Perhaps in exchange for &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; offering a better price, a &lt;/del&gt;[[friendly retail]] location can be convinced to support [[Consumerium Service access]] onsite to look up related books that the reader might enjoy - boosting sales.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Consumerium Services]] can obviously and easily support lookup of reviews and other commentary on a book by &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;ISBN-&lt;/ins&gt;[[barcode]]. &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;A &lt;/ins&gt;[[friendly retail]] location can be convinced to support [[Consumerium Service access]] onsite to look up related books that the reader might enjoy - boosting sales.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Additional value is added by [[faction]] participation, as the reviews can be filtered according to who one trusts in general on buying decisions, not just who one trusts &amp;quot;about books&amp;quot;.  The whole basis for book buying advice may well be [[factionally defined]] and have nothing in common from faction to faction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Additional value is added by [[faction]] participation, as the reviews can be filtered according to who one trusts in general on buying decisions, not just who one trusts &amp;quot;about books&amp;quot;.  The whole basis for book buying advice may well be [[factionally defined]] and have nothing in common from faction to faction.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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		<author><name>Jukeboksi</name></author>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Buy_book&amp;diff=2642&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>142.177.99.8: link borrow book since such functions work in public library too, but without revenue sharing potential</title>
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		<updated>2004-02-29T07:01:04Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;link &lt;a href=&quot;/w/index.php?title=Borrow_book&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1&quot; class=&quot;new&quot; title=&quot;Borrow book (page does not exist)&quot;&gt;borrow book&lt;/a&gt; since such functions work in public library too, but without revenue sharing potential&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 07:01, 29 February 2004&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Revenue sharing]] from this kind of arrangement might help to make the service [[self-funding]], and pay for deployment in many non-book applications.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Revenue sharing]] from this kind of arrangement might help to make the service [[self-funding]], and pay for deployment in many non-book applications.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;See also:  [[Wikitravel]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;See also:  [[Wikitravel&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]], [[borrow book&lt;/ins&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;

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	<entry>
		<id>https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Buy_book&amp;diff=2627&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>142.177.99.8: a funding channel</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://develop.consumerium.org/w/index.php?title=Buy_book&amp;diff=2627&amp;oldid=prev"/>
		<updated>2004-02-29T06:56:28Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;a funding channel&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;To &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;buy book&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;s without consulting at least some review or comment on them is probably a bad idea.  [[Amazon.com]] has proven that simply compiling reviews and marketing books based on them, and on [[product affinity]], is very effective (they were one of the few [[dotcom]]s to actually survive the bust).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Consumerium Services]] can obviously and easily support lookup of reviews and other commentary on a book by [[barcode]], and possibly get a better price on the same book, via a [[worn device]] lookup.  Perhaps in exchange for &amp;#039;&amp;#039;not&amp;#039;&amp;#039; offering a better price, a [[friendly retail]] location can be convinced to support [[Consumerium Service access]] onsite to look up related books that the reader might enjoy - boosting sales.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Additional value is added by [[faction]] participation, as the reviews can be filtered according to who one trusts in general on buying decisions, not just who one trusts &amp;quot;about books&amp;quot;.  The whole basis for book buying advice may well be [[factionally defined]] and have nothing in common from faction to faction.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Revenue sharing]] from this kind of arrangement might help to make the service [[self-funding]], and pay for deployment in many non-book applications.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
See also:  [[Wikitravel]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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