Lars Aronsson wrote:
I just learned that Amazon.com has some new web services stuff, that might be interesting. You can download their kit, and write your own applications on your own website. I haven't checked it out yet, but the info is on http://www.amazon.com/webservices
I guess they are not placing their reviews under GFDL, though... that would have been a great service! Is it OK to put book reviews in Wikipedia (on an Amazon scale)? Do we know how many book reviews are already in Wikipedia? Or should there be a separate wiki for this?
Of course copying Amazon's reviews would carry too much copyright violation risks.
Wikipedians have sporadically written about their favorite books, and that does represent some kind of book review even if it's called something else. Since we're not in the book selling business we can give equal treatment to old classics as to the latest best seller. It's been developping even better in the movies area. This all has been functioning quite well, so there's no need for changes.
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