Before Amazon.com launched Marketplace and zShops, they used to have a somewhat convoluted human-powered system to fulfill requests for out of print titles. Glenn Fleishman--fabulous tech columnist, former Amazon.com employee, and the man behind isbn.nu and ISBlogN (a blog about book-related metadata)recounts the story of how how his team at Amazon.com launched the original framework for out of print titles. Interesting.
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