New York Times Opens "Best Sellers API"
The New York Times on Tuesday opened up its “Best Sellers API,” offering programmatic access to best-seller data (going back to 1930!) from the Times: The Times Best Sellers API gives you quick access...
View ArticleOpen XML API for O'Reilly Metadata
In addition to Bookworm, O’Reilly Labs now includes an RDF-based API into all of O’Reilly’s books: Most publishers are familiar with the ONIX standard for exchanging metadata about books among trading...
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The future of publishing is writable
Publication of information obviously includes traditional media, such as books, newspapers, magazines, music, and video. But we can generalize considerably to include blogs, tagging (e.g., Delicious,...
View ArticleDon’t Build Social – Thoughts on reinventing the wheel
For the publishing community, social reading has been the hot topic of the year. Since 2008, in fact, social features have spread like wildfire. No publishing conference is complete without a panel...
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Open API: The Blanche DuBois economy
‘Open API’ is a well-known term that seldom gets challenged. It passes in conversation as an agreed-upon good. However it should be recognised that there is no such thing as an Open API – it is a...
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Creating reader community with open APIs
I spoke at the “Frankfurt Digital Night” at this year’s Frankfurt Book fair, making essentially three points (see slides embedded below): first, publishing requires – and has always required – a...
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Buy once, sync anywhere
This article by Oli Brooks is a preview to the the Buy once, sync anywhere session he’s part of at TOC NY 2013 in February. Use the discount code below to register for the event and learn more about...
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ValoBox: TOC Startup Showcase Finalist
We’re giving our readers a chance to get to know our TOC Startup Showcase Finalists a little bit better before the big showdown in NYC. We’re featuring the startups with a personality profile here on...
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A Publisher’s Job Is to Provide a Good API for Books
Introduction Here is a radical statement: A publisher’s job is to provide good APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for their books. Now that almost all books are made into digital products (that...
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Visualizing book production
Data visualization is one of the hot topics of the last year or two. So what does this offer publishing and book production? Open data activists in particular have been lobbying governments for access...
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