This is cost prohibitive for normal independents. There are four book databases available for Internet use. It contains 400-500,000 active titles and an extended database of 700,000 inactive titles. It contains roughly 350,000 bookcovers and annotations. Baker has an internet version of its title source database that is available for online use.
Pricing is roughly the same.
In Print BookSite does not support this database. Books In Print recently opened up their database for internet use. Muze BookSite does not support this database either. We believe that the internet should be made part of your existing store operations. To the extent you already are comfortable with Microsoft office applications, those same applications can support your web site support and administration.