Public database of book titles?

Question

I want my users to set their previously read books in my app.

Is there any database with easily accessible API where I can get up-to-date book titles?

The movies part of your question would be a duplicate of http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/1594/open-source-alternative-to-imdb so I edit your question to focus on books, hope you are OK with it :-) — Nicolas Raoul, Jan 09 '15 at 05:34
because they don't have every book archived. you can join and then add the book to the archive....DO IT! — albert, Jan 09 '15 at 22:01
we have A LOT of books but not all of them. Our users are constantly adding more items to the database. Hopefully we will succeed to collect all books in the near future. — teeparty, Jan 10 '15 at 17:01
@albert EnJayz so both of your database is open for public, user can add records both to your database, do you sync outpan <-> openlibrary back and forth, that would make much sense from user perspective? — János, Jan 10 '15 at 18:43
I found that book :) https://www.outpan.com/view_product.php?barcode=9789630888288 — philshem, Mar 28 '15 at 06:50

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited May 01 '17 at 11:16

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Open library has a goal of one page for every book, and has the data you seek.
It's run by the internet archive.

edited May 01 '17 at 11:16

answered Jan 09 '15 at 18:18

albert

Of note is the fact that openlibrary.org's data is under a CC0 license. – Abbafei Oct 30 '18 at 03:22

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '15 at 12:16

The British Library has a Linked Data API to the British National Bibliography (BNB): http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html

Examples of how to use the API can be found here:

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