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Author: John Miedema

OpenBook is for book reviewers, book bloggers, library webmasters, anyone who wants to put book covers and data on their WordPress blog or website.

OpenBook gets its covers and book data from Open Library (http://openlibrary.org), the only source of bibliographic data that is both open source and open data, hence the OpenBook label. Open source is important because the technical knowledge is shared for everyone's good. Open data means that anyone can add and modify titles; this is especially good for independent publishers that might not get represented elsewhere. It's like Wikipedia for books.

Important: To use OpenBook, your server must use PHP 5 or higher. Upgrading to PHP 5 may be a simple matter on the control panel of your server (e.g., Netfirms, http://support.netfirms.com/article.php?id=713).

See samples and find support at http://johnmiedema.ca/openbook-wordpress-plugin/. Contact me at openbook@johnmiedema.ca.