Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end

Re:Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be com... by imglorp on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:03AM (#24451810)

Business opportunity here to replace this?

Start with some HN or Reddit style forum discussion code. Some income could come from affiliate links to indie booksellers. (Is there even infra for such a thing right now? Need to build that too?)

Edit, answering myself, this guy has some thoughts: https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/

Edit, as for the index corpus, the USLC does okay: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg=0312937385&se...

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Re:Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be com... by foxdev on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:46AM (#24452852)

Here's an attempt at making a Goodreads-like that runs on ActivityPub: https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm

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Re:Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be com... by doiwin on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:28AM (#24451927)

Is the USLC always updated with the latest books?

What would be the legal background of using their index?

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Re:Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be com... by freddie_mercury on Saturday September 12, 2020 @10:12PM (#24457619)

Sure, if you only care about America. But people in other countries read books too.

Here's the best selling book in Germany:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45006237-das-geschenk

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Re:Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be com... by imglorp on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:32PM (#24453999)

Oh, hm, ISBN is probably better? These guys seem to have a DB, wonder how they get it? https://isbnsearch.org/

It used to be that authors needed to deposit a copy of every new book at USLC, that's probably an old thing.

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