We use Amazon covers in our catalog (alternately a google image if none is
available from Amazon).  The image and caption are click-able and toggle a
hidden lightbox layer into view.  The layer has links to amazon (and google)
for more info.  We assume this is in accord with Amazon's terms of use.

http://library.willamette.edu/search?/torigins+of+the+french+revolution/torigins+of+the+french+revolution/1%2C1%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=torigins+of+the+french+revolution&3%2C%2C3/indexsort=-#
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Mike

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Jay Roos <[log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

 > I've now been able to implement covers from Google and Amazon in our test
 > catalog. Google has many fewer images, they sometimes don't make any
sense
 > (getting an author photo instead of the cover), and getting them is slow,
 > at
 > least through the javascript methods posted here recently. However,
 > Amazon's
 > terms seem unfriendly to libraries since "Your use of the Amazon
 > Properties
 > must be strictly limited to promoting the availability of products and
 > services on the Amazon Website...."
 >
 > I'd really like to go with Amazon. Is there anyone who has implemented
 > Amazon covers in production and who has been using them without
issue? How
 > do you justify your use when you're really just trying to enhance the
 > library experience?
 >
 > --
 > Jay Roos
 > Computer & Information Systems Coordinator
 > Great River Regional Library
 > 405 W. St. Germain
 > St. Cloud, MN 56301
 >