Book Ne.ws combines information from Amazon about books, including personal wishlists, with recent news articles and blog posts indexed by Google, using Yahoo Pipes and some custom code as the glue. It started as my attempt to find blog posts about new books written by bloggers I read. I've since extended it to search for news and blog posts related to arbitrary Amazon wishlists. You can search for your wishlist using your name or email address.

In addition to combining news about multiple books in a wishlist, titles of books are automatically converted to links to pages which will search for references to a single title. Similiarly, pages are created for authors which find posts about the author. Every page on this site which returns news provides a custom RSS feed link.

Finally, if you purchase a book from Amazon by following a link on this site, I make a commission through their affiliate system.

Suggestions for improvements to this site can be sent to me at cwarden@xerus.org.


 
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