{"id":15918,"date":"2009-10-04T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T23:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15918"},"modified":"2009-10-04T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T23:58:10","slug":"waiting-for-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/waiting-for-amazon.html","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once upon a time, Amazon would let you save a search (on a author, title, or other string of words), and send you an alert when some new item got added that matched that search. This was a great way to get notified when a favorite author, or series, was out with a new title.<\/p>\n

The option got harder and harder to find, and finally seemed to vanish. Which is really annoying, and, I would think, counter-productive to Amazon.<\/p>\n

Is anyone aware of an effective way (on or off of Amazon) of looking for this sort of info? In other words, something that would let me know when the next XYZ series book by ABC is available?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, Amazon would let you save a search (on a author, title, or other string of words), and send you an alert when some new item got added that matched that search. This was a great way to get notified when a favorite author, or series, was out with a new title. … Continue reading “Waiting for Amazon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5153,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/23\/too_cool_3.html","url_meta":{"origin":15918,"position":0},"title":"Too cool","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Oct-03 9:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazon now lets you search for books by interior content. 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