To Internet Service Providers To Internet Service ProvidersBook News, Inc. is searching for a service that will load our data
on their computer and provide free public access via telnet,
perhaps ftp, and eventually gopher and WWW.
Our data is currently published in two periodicals (SciTech Book
News and Reference & Research Book News) that are used almost
exclusively by libraries as book selection tools. We produce close
to 12,000 annotations of high level books per year, each 20 to 100
words in length, and our current database totals some 60,000
records which we estimate to occupy 12 mb of space, excluding
indexing.
Much of our data appears in R.R.Bowker's CD-ROM, _Books in
Print With Book Reviews PLUS_ where it is also accessible by a
near-perfect search engine.
To date, we have registered with Internic the name
BookNews.com
under which we will post our 18 years of material, and to
which we'll add around 250 records each week.
Here are some specific requirements:
1. Storage of up to 25 mb of data with the possiblity to
expansion.
2. Indexing of our records by all key words in the author,
title, series note, publisher, publication year, and by the
class (subject) number, International Standard Book No.,
(ISBN), date of entry into the system.
3. Free public access.
4. A total access count by month
5. The ability to delete records singly or en masse by
reference to the ISBN.
6. A bulletinboard to which readers can post comments.
7. An index to the bulletinboards containing comments, or a
list of these as they are posted.
The storage, indexing, and free access must be in place before an
announcement of our service can be made, so please bracket your
charges for the first three items with a realistic delivery date;
then make the same estimate for the remainder.
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Book News, Inc.
booknews@wln.com
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