Re: Google Booksearch Data API: Another blow to library metadata

From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_nyob> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:06:08 +0200 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Tim Spalding wrote:
> The Google API has what Amazon lacks--coverage of
> out-of-print books.
Actually, Amazon does have o-o-p books, but they are the ones submitted 
by their bookselling partners and are often of very poor quality. We 
crawled Amazon for the Open Library project and got a number of these. 
We'll replace them with better records from libraries should we get them.

kc