Amazon used to have the option to look inside a book, often generating a random assortment of pages, but it always included the index in the sample. This was incredibly important if you wanted to order a textbook or anything related to a set of plays, an anthology, or a translation. Suddenly this feature is missing and I’ve now, twice within the last few months, ordered complete garbage reprints from fake publishers who had used plausible cover art. Paper quality was poor, margins were a mess, missing contents — it was disgusting and a waste of shipping.
I’ve been trying to look this up and it seems there is only a “look inside” feature for Kindle books now, not for hardcovers or paperbacks? What is this!? Does anyone know a workaround?
by Clever_Mercury
3 Comments
I don’t have official info but Amazon has been in the habit of removing stuff that either costs them money, or dissuades people from making purchases. The feature you’re mentioning may qualify as both of those things
Maybe try to find the specific book on the publisher or a different bookseller site to get the official information? You may find comparable or better deals, too, or if you don’t, plugging the ISBN into your amazon search may return better results.
Well you answered your own question – removal of the feature leads to people buying poor-quality books that otherwise would never sell.
Things like this are one reason i switched to digital.