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Posted by Frances Haugen, Associate
Product Manager and Matthew Gray, Software Engineer, Book
Search

Here at Google
Book Search we love books. To share this love of books (and the
tremendous amount of information we've accumulated about them),
today we've released a new href="http://code.google.com/more/" >API that
lets you link easily to any of our books. Web developers can use
the >Books Viewability API to quickly find out a
book's href="http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/screenshots.html"
>viewability on Google Book Search and, in an
automated fashion, embed a link to that book in Google Book Search
on their own sites.

As an example of the API in use, check out the href="http://catalog.dpls.lib.or.us/record=b1022758"
id="rx3l" >Deschutes Public Library in Oregon, which has added a
link to "Preview this book at Google" next to the
listings in their library catalog. This enables Deschutes readers
to preview a book immediately via Google Book Search so that they
can then make a better decision about whether they'd like to
buy the book, borrow it from a library or whether this book
wasn't really the book they were looking for.

We think this API will be useful to all sites that connect readers
with information about books, from href="http://nov9.scriblio.net/search/history?subj=20th century&open_sesame=1"
>library catalogs to href="http://catalog.dpls.lib.or.us/record=b1022758"
>public libraries to href="http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu:2082/search/X?SEARCH=Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim&searchscope=28"
id="w4ew" >universities. To see more implementations in action,
href="http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/03/preview-books-anywhere-with-new-google.html"
id="x1:g" >read this post on the Book Search blog.

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