The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 42, October 2, 2005, Article 29

BOOK COVER IMAGES AND SEARCH BY ISBN NUMBER

Dick Johnson writes: "Standing in line at Post Office I overhead
one woman telling another that on eBay you could get the illustration
of a book's cover or title page by typing in its ISBN number.
Have you heard of this service?"

[I only tried two examples, but it worked on print.google.com
both times and only once on ebay.com. Use "0813527015" to
locate Michael Molnar's book, "The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy
of the Magi" (See the September 12&19, 1999 E-Sylum issues,
Volume 2, Number 37&38, for the numismatic connection). The
other example I used was "0226893952", the ISBM of Lawrence
Weshler's book, "Boggs : A Comedy of Values."

Print.google.com has an image of the cover of every book
they digitize, and a thumbnail version of the image shows up
alongside search results. If you click on the image you can get
to a full-size version.

On eBay, if someone has a copy of the book for sale, you get
a "Stock Photo" of the cover with your search results.

I wouldn't call it a "service" as much as I would a "feature"
of the two web sites. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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