Amazon.com Launches Bible Store

Amazon.com just launched its new Bible Store, which lets you browse Bibles by category, translation, and publisher.

No one’s completely solved the information-architecture problem of how best to guide people to the best Bibles for them. Christianbook.com’s EasyFind Bible Search Engine does a lot of things right: you can refine your browsing with many criteria, including cover color, binding, cross-references, and text size. This interface helps you if you have a good idea of what you’re looking for.

Nothing can substitute talking to a knowledgeable sales clerk or friend about which Bible to buy if you’re not sure where to start, however.

Here are some other tools to help you find Bibles online:

• BAMM.com gives you a few winnowing options.
• Parable helps you sort by whom you intend to give the Bible to.

The prominence given to certain Bibles in some bookstores may reflect payments made by publishers to the stores—a form of offline “co-op” advertising transported into the online world.

Via Emergesque.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 8th, 2007 at 9:00 am and is filed under General. Both comments and pings are currently closed.