What's the best resource to retrieve book cover art by ISBN?

Question

I am working on an application for a bookstore, and I was wondering the best way to retrieve book cover art by ISBN. If any of you people know, I would really appreciate the tip. I'm using http://isbndb.com for all of the rest of the data, but it doesn't include an image location in its XML response.

Would Amazon's Advertising API take care of this or not? I can't really tell from the description.

Answer 1

You may try to use OpenLibrary OR librarything

Answer 2

I believe you can access them through Amazon's API, but it's apparently not clear whether this violates the TOS.

There's OpenLibrary, but it's not clear how many they have.

Another is LibraryThing.

This site talks about Amazon, OpenLibrary, and LibraryThing.

Answer 3

Amazon does do it (i've done it in JavaScript and php) and its not a difficult API - but I don't know if it breaks the terms and conditions because I've no idea what you are using the covers for.