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Originally Posted by Starson17
The term "aggregator" just means Google Books, or Amazon or ISBNDB, etc. where this type of info is stored for lots of books.
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That makes sense. Kovid must have used the term to deflect me from the my issue with the absence of metadata from online publishers thinking I was expecting calibre to search publishers sites for metadata. The only issue I have is with the publishers not submitting their data to ISBNDB. At least that is what I presumed until I went to the site.
From ISBNDB.com/faq.html
"ISBNdb.com gets the data in a unique way - it scans libraries all across the world for book information. The scanning is random and similar in a way to how general purpose web search engines scan web sites. "
Now I know why the data for books only published in electronic form is missing if it isn't sold on Amazon.