style function. However, we encounter many kinds of situations every day that require us to respond more meticulously and clearly. They require some action that works more completely than a mere reflection or explanation of truth. Most situations in our life demand a complete function, some complete action."

This appears on page 232. In a bookstore, a practiced researcher can survey the entire shelf of offerings over a few days, knowing the approximate kinds of answers contained in the 100,000 pages of texts. There is simply no way to determine that a passage like this exists in a text by "heuristic methods" alone.

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Re:Struggling to sell on Amazon 

by TaoPhoenix (980487) <TaoPhoenix@yahoo.com> on Tuesday March 22 2011, @11:46PM (#35582530)

Hi there.

Your thoughful reply still leaves aspects of the problem to be thrashed out. If a Big Box bookstore has some 400 tomes per topic section, "there they are". However if I were to try to look at a big list on Amazon, somehow I find myself getting lost in clicks. Something like click on a title, click on preview, click on chapter 1, make a new browser tab to open Wikipedia to cross check something about the book, and more. This is especially bad for when I am researching nonfiction topics. Nothing beats just opening the tome to see how a Buddhist author handled the notoriously difficult passage in chapter nine where the Pali source was damaged. I haven't yet been able to answer those kinds of queries online yet. If it were all in a Google Scan of some kind maybe 