They're also tightened up the API in various ways, and renamed it the
Amazon.com Product Advertising API. Although I know of no case when
Amazon has shut down a library, it would be hard for any to claim
their site had as their principal purpose advertising and marketing
the Amazon Site and
In fact, I believe that library-sector developers have asked Amazon and
been told that their use is allowed. But definitely, there's no
guarantee this will always continue be true. The terms of use don't seem
to have substantially changed to me, but they could always start
enforcing them more
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote:
I think it's a terrible mistake for them. Their marginal cost is zero;
they don't need to do this.
Their marginal cost may be quite low, but I'm fairly sure it's not
zero. Cycles, storage, and bandwidth aren't free.
