Using AmazonCrossing as a Source

[[deleted user]]

I came upon this book in my update stream:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

This is a German language novel translated and published by AmazonCrossing. SInce amazon is the translator, publisher, and seller of this book, the English description is only available from amazon. (As far as my searching has revealed). Is it "legal" to pull the description from amazon? Or , should I just translate it from German to English?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I think the answer is no, but someone is looking into this further.

If you own the book, you can always get the information from the book directly.

[[deleted user]]

One of my friends is reading it. When I looked at the book description, I noticed it was in German, and looked around for an English description. It seems that amazon is doing "in-house" translations to Kindle, or something like that.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Jeannette wrote: "One of my friends is reading it."

So maybe you can get the info from her.

[[deleted user]]

I will ask her. But, do Kindle books typically download a book description, along with the book? I just remember reading the amazon description online before buying my Kindle books. If we can't use the amazon description, and there's no physical cover to read from, where do these books get their description field provided from?