mtravellerh: We already include FeedBooks public domain in our results, if that's what you meant. We will be adding user books from FeedBooks shortly. Hadrien was quite helpful when we checked with him for their data.
rhadin and HellMark: Yes - format filtering is needed. Ditto for price based sorting. We're considering all the ways to add that, including a fancy price slider. Re: FictionWise, we will start displaying at least the regular price, and figure out the best way to display the club price also. Re: B&N, we just started getting their feed yesterday, but it doesn't distinguish ebooks from physical books
We'll figure that one out soon. Thank you both!
BearMountainBooks: Thanks - please do let us know what you think when you are able to spend more time on the site.
93terp - yes, from the start we wanted our UI to be simple - we're tired of dysfunctional, heavy UIs ourselves. Thank you for your kind words, we will figure out how to make book summaries more accurate.
ekaser - the input field would be helpful, though we are hoping people will email us new sites till we add it. We also have a list of over a hundred sites that we want to add
We are also thinking through ways to discover sites like Moran's automatically through focused web crawling. Re(2) - bmd and I debated this a month ago (and he won). Including cover blurbs in search results does show books that might not be exactly what users are looking for, but it often helps people who don't know the exact title and/or author. For example, the query for CNN returns books for both the TV network as well as books on Cellular Neural Networks, only because we include the blurb in our index. But we always give the blurb less importance in our results so results with terms in just the blurb always show up lower in the rankings. Re(3) - yes, that's something we want to improve. It is non-trivial, but we'll figure it out :-) Thank you!
BenG - glad to help!
Shadowplay - we appreciate your kind words. We're going to keep working hard to improve Inkmesh every day.
ahi - yes, we *want* suggestions for new ebook sources! Language support would be useful too - we'll look into it. As for ratings on the site itself - that's a good idea - we will add that in when we add user registration, because ebook ratings are one of the best indicators for us to return better results. Thank you!
CleverClothe: thanks for the feedback, we agree - we will start displaying the regular price right away, and figure out a good way to display the rebate price along with it.
Seventh Son: the complete list of the sites we search is posted here:
http://inkmesh.com/about. It is updated automatically whenever we add a new site.