This is awesome Tim, thanks very much.
My software these days investigates several sources of covers, and then
decides based on availabilty which to use. If I wanted to check LT for a
cover before deciding to display it, would I just access that kind of
URL and see if I get a 404 or not?
Jonathan
Tim Spalding wrote:
After releasing all our series, award prizes and such, we've now
released all our covers. See the blog:
http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/08/million-free-covers-from-librarything.php
I really hope this—or more probably what comes of this—ends the
selling of covers to libraries. Data companies are great. People want
data more and more every year. There are a million ways of making
money off selling to this need. (We're no Bowker, but we too make some
money off selling data.) But covers need to drop out the bottom and
become free.
Tim
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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
