Amazon Windowshop Beta
Amazon’s Windowshop is a beautiful, visual interface for the exploration of new releases in books, music and DVDs. It’s an immersive experience — this may be one of the biggest buzzphrases of 2008. It stands on the shoulders of giants like Coverflow and CoolIris (formerly PicLens) and SearchMe, all my favorite things. I love the way you select titles of interest and instantly get multimedia content — book descriptions, movie trailers, music, and it’s easy (way too easy!) to click through and buy things.
If only our library systems could work like this…
- Amazon Windowshop Beta — Explore, enjoy…
- Go Virtual Window Shopping at Amazon’s New Windowshop.com — Article by Sarah Perez, New York Times/ReadWriteWeb, October 27, 2008
