It is possible to retrieve a MARC record for an ebook from OL using just 
a URL:

This gets you the original MARC record:

http://archive.org/download/{identifier}/{identifier}_marc.xml

This gets you a record that has been modified to represent the ebook (it 
has a 245 $h, 007, etc.)

http://archive.org/download/{identifier}/{identifier}_archive_marc.xml

The identifier is the IA book identifier. e.g.

http://archive.org/download/cu31924075867089/cu31924075867089_archive_marc.xml

I haven't played around with this much, but first, I think we need to 
document this somewhere. I can write up the documentation, but it will 
need to be linked to help, and perhaps to the developer documentation?

The other thing is that it would be great to have a browser plug-in that 
creates this from any page with an archive ID. Does that sound feasible? 
If so, I think I'll start a section of the projects page for "proposed 
projects."

kc
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