Maybe someone who is familiar with the latest jargon can help me with
this.
Amazon has a page describing "Amazon Connect", a type of account that
can be used by authors and other artists to interact with their fans
via blog, update their own product listings, etc. Here are some quotes
from the description.
They say that artists' blogs can get prime placement by "Surfacing an
artist's posts on their customers' Amazon Daily." In another place,
they say that "If you already have a blog outside of Amazon, you can
use RSS to surface your existing blog directly to your Amazon
customers...."
I have never seen the word "surfacing" used this way, and I don't
quite understand what they mean. Have they simply hired a non-English
speaker to write this, someone who perhaps means to say "serving" and
"serve"? Or is this a new, jargony used of the word "surface" that I'm
meeting for the first time? And if so, what exactly does it mean? If
you are familiar with this, please point me to other examples of its
use.
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Rosemary West
ESC Webmaster