https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=41186
--- Comment #1 from Owen Leonard <[email protected]> --- Koha gets its cover images the way it does largely because the license for services like Amazon and Google cover images requires (last we checked?) that the images not be copied and stored off of those sites. So Amazon will let you use their cover image but only if you're loading it from their server: "You will not store or cache Product Advertising Content consisting of an image, but you may store a link to Product Advertising Content consisting of an image for up to 24 hours" https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies?pf_rd_p=533f99bc-124a-40f3-90a1-485af6c938a7 I see that Aspen Discovery appears to store the source of a "successful" cover (e.g. coce_google_books) so that the system doesn't need to look on the fly for a working cover source like Koha does. But I don't know how Aspen "decides" which source is the best option in the case where there are multiple. The CustomCoverImages and LocalCoverImages preferences move the copyright compliance responsibility, theoretically, to the person running the Koha installation (rather than the Koha project) and those would be the features you'd want to use if you wanted to make sure your covers appeared. I find it difficult to imagine any way for Koha to search the internet as a whole for available covers. None of this is to say that I disagree with your frustration about the issue. I 100% agree that it's very messy. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
