Comments on: You Can Now Text Your Orders to Amazon http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/04/02/you-can-now-text-your-orders-to-amazon/ Book reviews, industry news, and commentary from a reader's point of view Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:48:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ann-Kat http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/04/02/you-can-now-text-your-orders-to-amazon/#comment-198526 Ann-Kat Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:19:10 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/?p=4204#comment-198526 Or, someone who already has a web-enabled phone can just visit Amazon mobile and order it with about 3 fewer steps... Or, someone who already has a web-enabled phone can just visit Amazon mobile and order it with about 3 fewer steps…

]]> By: Karen http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/04/02/you-can-now-text-your-orders-to-amazon/#comment-157215 Karen Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:40:59 +0000 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/?p=4204#comment-157215 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!) 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!)

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