Thanks for all the work on this, Tim.  I agree completely that it's
ridiculous that covers are so costly to display (Amazon's "free"
version worries me with their new TOS) and it's great to see someone
step up and fix that!

Mark Sandford
Special Formats Cataloger
William Paterson University
(973)270-2437
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> After releasing all our series, award prizes and such, we've now
> released all our covers. See the blog:
>
> http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/08/million-free-covers-from-librarything.php
>
> I really hope this—or more probably what comes of this—ends the
> selling of covers to libraries. Data companies are great. People want
> data more and more every year. There are a million ways of making
> money off selling to this need. (We're no Bowker, but we too make some
> money off selling data.) But covers need to drop out the bottom and
> become free.
>
> Tim
>
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> Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding
>