If you need to pull up book data for millions of books (e.g., from the standard information book title, author, and cover art to less conventional data such as book reviews and price info), where can you get it? By accessing a book database, obviously. In this article, we’ll review and analyze the most popular book databases (both paid and free) with relatively open APIs that can help you retrieve book information by ISBN.
The U.S. ISBN Agency has been assigning the 978 prefix to 13-digit ISBNs since 2007. In the previous article, we’ve explained the difference between 10- and 13-digit ISBNs and how both systems could be contained with the help of the 978 prefix. However, blocks of ISBN-13s built on existing ISBN-10s are exhausted. Therefore, the U.S. ISBN Agency has begun assigning ISBNs starting with the prefix element 979.
BookScouter is a book price comparison platform that helps you find where to sell, buy, and rent used books at the best prices and makes this process easy by quickly searching all the vendor websites for you.
In this guide, we’ll closely look at how you use BookScouter when you want to sell your books and need to find the vendor with the most beneficial offer.
Moving into a new place is always a challenge; however, if you are a book-lover, things get more complicated. A true bookworm can have hundreds of books to pack, so it is essential to know how to handle the task properly from the beginning.
Don’t you wish you could have access to a huge catalogue of free books, right at your fingertips?
When you’re as big of a bookworm as we are, you know that reading can quickly become an expensive hobby. Buying a new book every time you’re ready for a new tale is not financially sustainable, especially if you prefer hardbacks. Even second-hand books can become a strain on your wallet!
If you’ve inherited a family library with plenty of books and have discovered that most of them are outdated and have little value, you may start seeking ways to get rid of them. Unfortunately, not all old books are rare and worth a fortune on auctions, far from that. If your library is just a random collection or it contains professional literature which is too outdated for modern-day practices, you can part ways with these books without regret.