[WEB4LIB] Re: We need an Internet Literary Database

[Paul H. Gray]

Welcome to the real world  -- where every major advance or undertaking in
recent memory has happened because someone saw a chance to make a profit.
The kind of undertaking you are talking about will happen only/if/when some
creative soul finds a way to make money from doing it.
SO -
This is a great idea -- some of of you creative/greedy souls get busy :-)


> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Hanan Cohen wrote:
>
> [...]
> > The web needs an Internet Literary Database, similar to the Internet
> > Movie Database, so we can link to books without looking like we're
> > trying to sell you something.
>
> The irony bere being that IMDB is run by Amazon.com.
>
> I do believe someone pointed out a site/service the other day that allowed
> you to link to it with an ISBN as an argument, and that site would then
> redirect you (based upon previously set preferences ala cookie) to
> any one of a number of reference sites and/or booksellers.
>
http://www.linkbaton.com/

Currently, the only options for LinkBaton linking to books appear to be
commercial, mainly online booksellers.

There are many possibilities if you toss Library of Congress, Z39.50,
local web-based catalogs, and a few others into the mix.

I do believe linkbaton is open source, or soon to be. Unable to find any
reference to it on the site.

-jeff

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Jeff Godin
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