Thread: Getting Metadata from Amazon
View Single Post
Old 07-03-2017, 01:14 PM   #20
Rev. Bob
Wizard
Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Rev. Bob ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Rev. Bob's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,760
Karma: 9918418
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Here on the perimeter, there are no stars
Device: Kobo H2O, iPad mini 3, Kindle Touch
Quote:
Originally Posted by theducks View Post
Amazon owns Goodreads. The Count Pages PI can use Goodreads
Amazon does not reliably populate page-count data to Goodreads; its ownership of the site is irrelevant. Furthermore, Goodreads has a host of librarians with access to edit (theoretically fixing) GR book data on a whim; those changes don't propagate back to Amazon.

Thus, saying "use Goodreads as a source for this Amazon data" is unreliable at best.
Rev. Bob is offline   Reply With Quote