Google Preview Now Available on IndieCommerce Sites & IndieBound.org

Consumers visiting a bookstore's ABA IndieCommerce website on the Drupal platform can now "look inside" thousands of books, courtesy of Google Preview. If Google Preview is available for a title, a button appears below the book's cover art on the site's product page. Clicking the button brings up an embedded viewer that provides a detailed look inside the book. Google Preview is also available on IndieBound.org. (For an example, see The Tyranny of E-mail by John Freeman [Scribner] on IndieBound.org.)

The availability of Google Preview on any title is entirely dependent on Google's arrangement with the book's publisher.

For ABA IndieCommerce and IndieBound.org, Google has generously agreed to disable the "Buy This Book" links to competing e-commerce sites that are normally part of the Google Books Embedded Viewer API. If ABA members notice links to other e-commerce sites on their IndieCommerce sites, they should immediately send an e-mail to staff@bookweb.org.

Questions about anything relating to ABA IndieCommerce can also be addressed to staff@bookweb.org.