Article: Over our dead bodies. (Up Front).(Amazon marketing glitches)(providing library reference service)

Want an instant giggle? Try searching for a fiction book title--mysteries especially--on Amazon.com and then check out the site's new "sponsored links" suggestions ("Customers interested in this title may also be interested in ..."). Any grandiose notions of Amazon s marketing infallibility get blown away in gales of laughter. A book called Death with Blue Ribbon refers the reader to Bags&Bows, "your Premier source for retail packaging. While Case for Three Detectives actually does recommend three P.1.-like services (apparently assuming that people who read detective novels are looking for tips on how to investigate acquaintances), I'm not sure the owners of three shoe ...

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