I notice that Edinburgh University Library has a link to Blackwells Online Bookshop on their web site. This is a useful bibliographic retrieval system, which allows you to buy books. Wouldn’t it be nice if it were better integrated with the catalog, so that one could discover books through the same interface, and then go on to buy, borrow, or whatever, through a followon service?
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