Re: Book database (slightly OT)
| From: | Erik Price | Date: | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:42:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Book database (slightly OT) | ||
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On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 11:38 PM, Boaz Yahav wrote:
Why not simply look the ISBN up in one of the big online shops and take the data from there? Amazon? B&N? It all depends on what you will do with the data I guess...A good idea, but if you're running a commercial site of some kind there are legal implications for using one site's content in another without permission. I seem to remember this being an issue between a smaller flight fare-finder site and Travelocity.com -- the former had written a clever Perl script or something that used content from the latter. It was in the papers. Erik