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Old 10-25-2010, 05:21 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
The term "aggregator" just means Google Books, or Amazon or ISBNDB, etc. where this type of info is stored for lots of books.
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.
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