Goodreads moves away from Amazon API for book data over restrictive terms of use

joseph harris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.ebook-community
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Goodreads moves away from Amazon API for book data over restrictive 
terms of use

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Social reading site Goodreads is changing the API it uses for pulling

book metadata to the site

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-38542">http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-38542</a>

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-as-goodreads-ends-agreement-with-amazon-users-fear-lost-books/
'...Goodreads is switching data providers and entering an agreement with 
book wholesaler Ingram---alarming some users who fear their reading 
records will be lost. ...'





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