Syndetics vs ContentCafe for book jacket images

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We’re looking at switching our cover image provider and are curious which services the community is using the most.

If you have a few moments and can complete the following poll and share any experiences, I’d appreciate it.

Which provider do you use?

  • Syndetics
  • ContentCafe (Baker & Taylor)
  • Chilifresh
  • Other (Reply w/Details)
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What Discovery Layer do you primarily use?

  • PowerPAC
  • Bibliocommons
  • Encore (Sierra)
  • WebPAC (Sierra)
  • Other (Reply w/Details)
0 voters
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Hi Wes,

We’re “Other” for both questions so here’s my reply with Details. Our discovery layer is a home-grown one developed by our consortium and expanded upon by us. It exists as part of our Drupal install on our website and integrates with a number of our other services.

Our consortium also hosts a cover images server for us that uses multiple image sources including Syndetics Unbound and Overdrive (ebooks, e-audiobooks, and e-magazines). This also allows us to upload our own cover images for things like book club kits, toys, and other items that aren’t served by the major content providers.

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Thanks for your reply and the details! It did get my wheels turning about some sort of homemade reverse image cover proxy that could allow for greater flexibility.

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Wes, we primarily use Vega for our discovery layer (got rid of Encore). That comes with Syndetics for free. For our WebPAC (which is not a discovery layer), we use Baker & Taylor Content Cafe for cover images/summaries and also NoveList Select for the related content (related authors, etc.). I will say NoveList Select content is superior to Syndetics (better recommendations), but Vega is Syndetics only at this point.

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