It appears those who run Amazon, Google and other book sites did not learn the lesson from their kindergarten (kindlegarten?) teachers, "How to play well with others."
You get a link from Google to Amazon for your book, except it is not a link to the book, but a search - that yields nothing. Seems these two don't like each other very much, at our expense.
For a more complete story, check out the Taleist blog, at:
http://blog.taleist.com/2010/12/13/amazon-blocking-sales-from-google-books-by-denying-ebooks-their-isbn/
Just one more roadblock to industry maturation.
Coming from the technology industry, where I owned my own firm for 20 years, I can tell you that these folks need a lesson in manners.
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