Bibliopage.com
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BiblioPage.com is an Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...

 affiliate site with a database of books gathered from libraries across the world using the NISO
Niso
Niso is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae. -Species:According to the World Register of Marine Species the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Niso * Niso aeglees Bush, 1885* Niso albida...

 z39.50
Z39.50
Z39.50 is a client–server protocol for searching and retrieving information from remote computer databases. It is covered by ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50, and ISO standard 23950. The standard's maintenance agency is the Library of Congress....

 protocol for accessing bibliographic databases. BiblioPage.com uses the YAZ toolkit from IndexData to access and manipulate bibliographic information.

The main idea behind BiblioPage.com is that libraries choose the best selection of books. Therefore by suggesting titles that libraries have purchased the consumer is choosing only among the most relevant titles.

Similar programs that make use of public z39.50 resources are Emc2Library.com or isbndb.com.

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