You Can Now Text Your Orders to Amazon
By Jane • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •Amazon makes it so easy to buy things. According to a new press release, Amazon TextBuyIt program was released on Tuesday. It’s not as easy as texting. The whole process includes a few back and forth between you and Amazon:
- You text the product name, description, UPC or ISBN to Amazon (262966) to order your product.
- You then enter your email address associated with your Amazon account and your zip code.
- You get called by a fulfillment system and an automated service helps you complete the order.
So, you can be in the local Barnes and Noble store, see a book you’d like and order it from Amazon. Of course, this presumes that Amazon can overcome that instant gratification need that so many book buyers feel.
Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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Everything old is new again! This reminds me of my earliest experience buying books online, when books.com was a telnet site. (Before the “web” existed.) You sent in your orders as single lines of text. If you wanted information on a book, you sent in a text request and the information came back to you by telnet. I remember how thrilled I was, because I wasn’t stuck with the books carried by the local bookstore - it probably seems primitive now but it was a thrill back then!
(I probably sound like one of those old geezers talking about “those newfangled telephones”. Really, it wasn’t THAT long ago!)