On May 9, 2007, at 11:56 AM, William Denton wrote: > On 8 May 2007, Eric Hellman wrote: > >> xISBN is free for non-commercial, low volume use. > > A library would pay $3,000 USD a year to be able to do 10,000 > queries a > day. That's a lot of queries, but I could imagine a big academic > library > doing a bunch if they pushed out web tools to their students to > make it > easy to check if any edition of a given book (seen at Amazon or in > a blog, > etc.) is available in its collection. 1,000 queries a day (which > used to > be free) is now $500 USD per year. It's 20% off for OCLC members. Y'know, we could just all chip in for the data file and provide free access through a web service. Heh. Someday, I'm gonna get sued. Also... did I somehow miss the legislation in which factual information (like, everything contained within xISBN) became copyrightable? -Nate