Google Books API is another source of cover images, although the ToS are
somewhat unclear too, they aren't as suggestive that you _can't_ use as
Amazon's are. :)
On 5/29/2012 9:30 AM, Andrew Preater wrote:
> Hi Magnus and others,
>
>> Partial answer: In the Koha community there has been decreasing
>> interest in Amazon because of this requirement (or people being unsure
>> about what the requirements actually are). Open Library seems to be
>> the main contender to replace it:
>> http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers
>>
>> You can see it in action here:
>> http://head.bibkat.no/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=lessig
>
> Any ideas how the Open Library jackets coverage compares to Amazon?
> Roughly - good / bad / awful? Interested from an academic library
> perspective.
>
> I'm interested in Open Library as I don't have much scope for altering
> how our NG catalog acquires images. Being able to GET an image by IBSN and
> it returning a 1x1 px gif if there's nothing available is ideal.
>
> Main benefit (for us) would be Open Library dealing with ISBN-13 whereas
> Amazon requires ASIN i.e. ISBN-10.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andrew
>
>
Received on Wed May 30 2012 - 16:47:34 EDT