p.s. Thanks for contributing the cover images!

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> It looks like you added the cover to the work, but ISBNs (and covers,
> really) are associated with editions.  After I added your cover to the
> edition record, it comes up under the ISBN in the API.
>
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Jerod Santo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I’m helping build a non-profit kids reading program
>> <http://www.dibsforkids.org>, and we have an inventory of books. Instead
>> of uploading book covers directly to our database, we thought it’d be more
>> community-focused if we instead upload the covers to Open Library and then
>> load them from there using your Covers API.
>>
>> We’ve uploaded a couple of test covers under the user ddorrick
>> <https://openlibrary.org/people/ddorrick>. Unfortunately, after
>> uploading, these covers don’t appear to be available via the API. Let’s use
>> this book as the example:
>>
>>
>> https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15014737W/26_Fairmount_Avenue_1_(26_Fairmount_Avenue)
>>
>> The cover art shows up on the page and can be reached here:
>>
>> https://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/7391880-L.jpg
>>
>> But when we try to use the ISBN version (ISBN is the ID we have on our
>> side that we can use to match books on your side), it does not exist:
>>
>> http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9780307256959-L.jpg
>>
>> We’re holding off on uploading a bunch more cover images until we have
>> some clarity that we can easily get them back out again for use on our
>> site. Please let me know if we’re doing something wrong or have a different
>> expectation than how it actually works.
>>
>> Thanks, cheers!
>>
>> –Jerod
>>
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