John

No joke. The last few days I have checked tens of listings for books with that "Look Inside" feature, and it has been eliminated for every one. This is the thing that lets surfers view high-res scans of a selection of pages from a book. I really enjoyed linking to art books with this feature, because you would often stumble upon good art scans that were quite large -- as tall as the viewable area in my browser (approximately 900 pixels).

If anyone has heard about this or can confirm that this is a permanent change, I'd be interested in hearing anything.

The good news is that "Search Inside" books, the ones that have high-res scans combined with full-text searching, are unaffected.