[Web4lib] How to get bestseller lists?

[Watts, Richard]

As indicated in another posting, we buy this information on a
subscription basis from SirsiDynix, along with lists of prize-winning
titles, book jackets, book reviews, tables of contents, etc. The
information gets updated weekly on Tuesday night, and we upload it on
Wednesday morning to the OPAC.

Richard Watts
San Bernardino County Library, Calif.

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Steve Toub
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:31 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] How to get bestseller lists?

Hi--

In some library OPACs, I often see lists of New York Times or other
bestseller lists. How is this typically done? I can't imagine folks are
keying this in manually or screenscraping the NYTimes.com site.

Are there vendors out there that I can pay to get a weekly feed of
bestseller lists that have ISBNs and whatnot? And then I load that list
into my ILS?

I've poked around in the Amazon API enough to know that it doesn't seem
possible to get the NYT bestsellers from there, but I'm not sure where
best to go to do this.

Thanks in advance!
   --SET

Steve Toub
BiblioCommons



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