[Koha-devel] Amazon Cover Images

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Chris Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2013 7:14 AM, "Frédéric Demians" <frederic at tamil.fr> wrote:
>>
>> > This discussion assumes that AWS is still usable by libraries. My
>> > understanding of the latest terms of AWS is that your application
>> > must have as its primary purpose the sale of material from Amazon.
>> > That's one of the reasons other Amazon API features were removed from
>> > Koha.
>>
>> I agree. This is a question for a lawyer. If your assertion is true,
>> Amazon book cover should be wiped out from Koha. With a decreasing
>> number of match, Amazon book covers, as they are currently implemented,
>> are more and more irrelevant.
>>
>
> Currently implemented we are within the terms of use,  and for some
> collections Amazon provides ok coverage.  It's a syspref, people have to
> turn them on, ripping it out when people are using them sounds like a bad
> idea to me.
>
>> Isn't Open Library the solution?
>>
>
> It's a solution, yes,  and people can turn that on, or syndetics, or ltfl,
> or google or local covers, etc.
>
> The enhancement I want to see is allowing a mix of sources. It's on bugzilla
> but I can't remember the number.


http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7187