Research Via Amazon Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books. Amazon.com is negotiating with book publishers to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of thousands of nonfiction books. By David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Books] There are already plenty of people who use Amazon instead of a library catalog to see what books are available on a certain subject. This new feature would at least allow more opportunity to evaluate a source. It seems as though there are a lot of implications to consider here, however. 11:30:43 AM     [comment []];[]