[Web4lib] How to get bestseller lists?

[Steve Toub]

FYI that the New York Times released an API for their bestseller lists 
today:

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/announcing-the-best-sellers-api/

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>> Subject: [Web4lib] How to get bestseller lists?
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>> Hi--
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>> 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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