Bookbutler online book meta-search engine

Colin Dunstan · 07-02-2005, 07:22 PM

Bookbutler is a really handy meta-search engine for comparing online book prices among various vendors. Simply type in title, author, keyword or ISBN of the book and you get the results ranging from cheapest to more expensive. Support for US, UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

hacker · 07-02-2005, 09:40 PM

Yep, they're just repurposing (violating the license of) isbn.nu, amazon.com and bookpool that I can see. You can see too, if you check the wording and right-click to see where the images are being sourced from.

I'm sure Amazon has a patent that forbids this behavior... <grin>

Seriously though, these new sites that are simply screen-scraping material from other sites and misleading consumers into believing that its their own content, need to be very careful with how they violate the laws of transcoding other content.

Tsk tsk, shame on them.

07-02-2005, 07:22 PM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Bookbutler online book meta-search engine Bookbutler is a really handy meta-search engine for comparing online book prices among various vendors. Simply type in title, author, keyword or ISBN of the book and you get the results ranging from cheapest to more expensive. Support for US, UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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07-02-2005, 09:40 PM	#2
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	Yep, they're just repurposing (violating the license of) isbn.nu, amazon.com and bookpool that I can see. You can see too, if you check the wording and right-click to see where the images are being sourced from. I'm sure Amazon has a patent that forbids this behavior... <grin> Seriously though, these new sites that are simply screen-scraping material from other sites and misleading consumers into believing that its their own content, need to be very careful with how they violate the laws of transcoding other content. Tsk tsk, shame on them.

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