by Greg Beatty

Academics are continually jonesing for a fix. They’re addicted to most seductive of drugs: information. They over-subscribe to listservs and haunt bookstores with longing in their eyes. (Or maybe that’s just me.) Oh, sure, they can always justify their desires. I need it for a class. I’ve got a research project. My next conference paper...

The Internet offers a whole new array of sources for those of us with this rare but addiction, and so I’m going to evaluate several Internet-based bookstores. To fairly compare prices, selection, and how user-friendly the websites are, I’ll search for the same books each place: specific editions of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, (for a class, honest), Sarban’s obscure science fiction novel The Sound of His Horn (for a paper, really), and for general higher education titles.

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