Authors and Release Dates

[Rick]

I have put together a web app that pulls a list of user's read and currently reading books, gets any series they are in, and figures out what is left in the series to read.

I wanted to put together an option to do the same thing by authors. However, it seems to me that when I pull data on a book it only ever shows the first author associated with the book. The XML is set up in a way to allow multiple entries, but I only ever see one returned. In most cases it does not matter, but for comics and anthologies that can leave off a lot of people. Am I missing something in the API where I can see a complete list of authors for a book?

Since Goodreads has entries for books that are not out yet as well, I was hoping to put a release date next to books that are in the future. It does not seem like the release date information is present in the book information. Is this available anywhere or am I out of luck with this feature?

[Rick]

For anyone interested, I found where both of these things are kept. They are in the book.show API call. That brings back all of the authors in its XML as well as an original publication date set.