The American Booksellers Association, in conjunction with Objective Consulting, makes the BookSense Bestseller List available for you to use on your own website, subject to some guidelines and limitations. This page provides some information about how to use them on your site.

All the lists you see on our site have been generated from the RSS files that we provide to the public. We will be happy to work with customers to tailor the viewing components to your own website or to adapt them to your own specific needs. Although this site has been generated using Java, RSS is an open technology and will work with a wide variety of environments.

Remember that RSS feeds provide content, but very little restrictions on formatting. This gives you a great deal of flexability in how you wish the data to be presented or used. We have adopted two different table formats for this site, but they are entirely customizable - from colors to layout, the choices are all yours.

If you are interested in making your website available through RSS, or have other data that you wish to distribute in this or other formats, we can also work with you to find the best solutions. We can help you design your feed and make it available to the world through a variety of common channels.

Since RSS is an open format based on XML, you should be able to use an XML parser that understands namespaces to help you parse the RSS feeds. We are using the RSS 2.0 format documented at Harvard's Berkman Center, information about the Dublin Core elements are available from The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, while the bestseller list specific tags are documented in our technical specification area.