Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A...
by elliekelly on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:03AM
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I wonder who the executive was who decided to start assigning International Standard Book Numbers to non-books.
“Why not? What’s the big deal?” said someone who has never worked with garbage data.
Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A...
by Throwaway1771 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:43AM
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Not an executive, but a middle manager etc that said:
"paying $2-10k+ to add an International Standard Book Accessory Number field to their software will never get approved for a bookmark that works as a compass, or a promotional Harry Potter bookend set."
Tough to disagree.
Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A...
by rozab on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:37AM
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Big booksellers whose whole systems are built around ISBNs as a primary key
Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A...
by factotvm on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:42AM
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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A...
by KineticLensman on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:45AM
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"And hammer marks start to mysteriously appear everywhere."
Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A...
by smokelegend on Sunday December 13, 2020 @12:26PM
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"Not a bug, but a feature"
There is an explanation under "About the author" section :
This "author" was created to segregate those items which have ISBNs but are not actually books. For more information, see the manual and/or start a thread in the Librarians Group.
When an item which is not a book is imported via ISBN into Goodreads, it does no good to delete it: the item will only be re-imported as long as it remains on the feeder site. (Often these are book-related items which are assigned ISBNs by book publishers so that they can be tracked through their book systems.)