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On 5/9/07, Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > As long as LibX is free and not being used as a way to drive Amazon > revenue, I don't see how it could be considered to be commercial. > Probably a way to drive Amazon revenue down, considering that we offer the alternative to borrow the book rather than buy it. > We've studied our logs pretty carefully. Most of the sites that have > exceeded the limit we set were commercial sites doing bulk harvest. > > You can track the xISBN use by LibX by getting an affiliate id. > LibX is a client-side tool. We're not a user of xISBN, we provide clients who have installed it the option to use xISBN. Also, keep in mind that an important reason to use OCLC's xISBN service - rather than using an alternate service or using the data directly - is Jeff Young's OAI bookmark service, specifically the know-how he's put into searching multiple catalogs and his keeping a database of which library uses which catalog. That, as I understand, is still not part of the officially supported xISBN, though. - Godmar