RE: GoodBook.reviews - Steem Powered Book Reviews 📖
Now, getting the database is not an insignificant cost.
I naively had no idea you could buy this data off the self. It was actually cheaper than I expected. I would really like to be able to add "keeping tack of current and future books" once the site is a little more mature.
What makes GR terrible is that they suck at making data accessible to users. I can't use it to see which books are coming out this week unless some user made a list. Considering every book has a listed release date, that's bonkers.
Do you know where the information originally comes from? Do publishers, authors or users upload the information about books that are yet to be released or is it pulled from an external resource?
But reviews built on a books database, so each book has an identity that allows you to see all the reviews for it is so much more powerful.
Feels a bit of a catch 22. Lots of books in the database but no reviews or all books have reviews but only a handful of books listed.
I do plan on having individual book pages that list all reviews and rating from users. you're 100% though, getting a critical mass so that the book you are looking for is already there with a review is a challenging endeavour .
I appreciate you taking the time to give feedback. I hope to have a version online we can start playing with soon.
When a publisher wants to publish a book, they buy an ISBN number from an affiliate of The International ISBN Agency. They have the original data.
As a reviewer, having the book available as a thing to review - without existing reviews - would be far preferable to having to add it manually. I also run book review contests, and can foresee this being very useful for that.
After ISBN has been purchased for the new book does that information get listed anywhere?
100% agree I'll look at what I can do. Might not be ready for the initial beta launch but hopefully, before the grand opening it would be ace to have this. A really simple 'review this book' button from the book page and it throws you right into the review with all the associated information setup for you. 🤞
Not by the agency, but multiple companies use their data. Amazon is basically built on it. There's an ISBN Search engine. But as to how companies get the data, I have no idea.
Thanks for all the info. I'll see if I can find a way to get new ISBN numbers as they are registered, I think you would need this to keep the database of books up-to-date.
Once you have a large enough database, users can totally carry the load of adding books. And if the platform becomes big enough, publishers will add books, like they do in GoodReads.