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A Publisher’s Job Is to Provide a Good API for Books

toc.oreilly.com on 02/01/2013

Excerpt: Here is a radical statement: A publisher’s job is to provide good APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for their books. Now that almost all books are made into digital products (that is, ebooks), good publishers of the future will be the ones who provide great APIs. In this article I am going to explore: why I think publishers must provide good APIs why this is actually much easier and less scary than you might think why the old-fashioned book index should be the starting point for book APIs An API is a set of tools/protocols that allow different bits of software to communicate with each other, under defined conditions.... read the full post.
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