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A Publisher's Job Is To Provide A Good API For Books

Posted at 8:10AM Wednesday 06 Feb 2013

If we start to think of "books as data," then the traditional publisher's role starts to sound a lot like the role of providing an API: A publisher's job is to manage how and when and under what circumstances people (readers) or other services (book stores, libraries, other?) access books (data).

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