Launched to the public earlier this week, Zoomii is one great bookstore browser. Built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3), interacting with Zoomii is reminiscent of Google Maps. You can zoom in and out of bookshelves or pan around to navigate the service. The site design feels just like you're browsing a bookshelf at any bookstore except the books are facing cover-forward instead of spine-out. To keep up with the feel of a bookstore, books are organized by author and you can also compare book sizes to get a feel for how big or small a book is.And gosh, my Canadian readers will be happy! (Via Brantley-again). Also Amazon Web Services Blog.
Note: The product is subject to Amazon.com's meta data which is why Simon Winchester's book The Man Who Loved China comes up on the "Mystery" shelf.
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