Search Inside the Book is a way for Amazon customers to find and discover books by searching the full text inside them, not just matches to author or title keywords. In collaboration with publishers, Amazon is enabling customers to find books at Amazon based on every word inside more than 120,000 books -- more than 33 million pages of searchable text. Customers can also preview the inside text of these books. Search Inside the Book is integrated into Amazon's standard search and includes books from all genres.
"Innovation drives customer experience, and Search Inside the Book is a great example," said Jeff Bezos. "With the help of publishers, we're offering a completely new way for people to find the books they want."
"The customer in me loves this," said Maureen Egen of Time Warner.
Customers interested in resistojet propulsion can search for resistojet and will automatically see a list of the many books at Amazon that contain this term in the text, in addition to those books that contain the term in the title.
Books with resistojet in the text will display an excerpt including that word or phrase and a link that says "See more references to resistojet in this book." By clicking on this link, customers will see a list of excerpts from all pages on which "resistojet" appears in the book they selected, as well as a link to view the full page from the book on which the excerpt appears. Once customers have clicked on the link to a specific page and signed in with their Amazon user name and password, they can preview relevant pages, including the page they selected, and search for other terms of interest within the book.