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Books

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Business capabilities this tag reaches
Financial Management 1

Providers using this tag (66)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Emerging 21 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 31 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (56)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
DEBYKO APIDEBYKO API as documented publicly: 28 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangeli...37.2Bicycle Guide Guide Registry APIRead-only REST API over the bicycle.guide published-guide registry that Coaching Leader Guide belongs to - ...37.1Bicycle Guide Registry APIRead-only REST API over the Bicycle Guide published-guide registry that Counselor Guide is part of, coverin...35.0Springer Nature Metadata APIThe legacy Metadata API provides metadata retrieval for Springer publications. Returns article and book met...34.9Quietforge Book Typesetting APITypesets a prose manuscript into a print-ready book interior (chapter detection, mirrored margins, running ...34.3Gutendex Books APIQuery and retrieve metadata for Project Gutenberg ebooks.34.0AI Agents Archive Books APIThe Books API from AI Agents Archive — 1 operation(s) for books.30.8Literal GraphQL APIGraphQL API for Literal Club that provides access to book data, reading states, shelves, reviews, highlight...30.5Common Sense Media Reviews APIJSON REST API exposing Common Sense Media's reviews and ratings catalog. Each review includes recommended a...28.8ISBNdb Books APIBook endpoints28.5Rakuten Books Book Search APISearch Rakuten Books for Japanese-language and translated books by title, author, ISBN, publisher, and othe...28.3Rakuten Books Foreign Book Search APISearch Rakuten Books foreign-language books catalog (mostly English-language).28.3Rakuten Books Genre Search APIReturns the genre tree for Rakuten Books, used for browse and navigation across the unified Books catalog.28.3Rakuten Books Total Search APIUnified search across all Rakuten Books catalogs (books, CDs, DVDs, games, software, magazines), returning ...28.3
Emerging 10 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 21 Almost no public developer surface
Naver Search Open APINaver Search API returns search results across Naver's catalogs: blog, news, book, encyclopedia, café artic...10.6British National BibliographyBooks6.3Bhagavad GitaOpen Source Shrimad Bhagavad Gita API including 21+ authors translation in Sanskrit/English/Hindi5.4Bhagavad GitaBhagavad Gita text5.4Wolne LekturyAPI for obtaining information about e-books available on the WolneLektury.pl website4.8Amanah SunnahSemantic search across Quran, Hadith, Tafsir & 18K+ Rijal narrators4.3Bible-apiFree Bible API with multiple languages4.3GanjoorClassic Persian poetry works including access to related manuscripts, recitations and music tracks4.3Penguin PublishingBooks, book covers and related data4.3Quran CloudA RESTful Quran API to retrieve an Ayah, Surah, Juz or the entire Holy Quran4.3Runyankole BibleFree REST API for the Runyankore-Rukiga Bible — 66 books, 31106 verses4.3The BibleEverything you need from the Bible in one discoverable place4.3Thirukkural1330 Thirukkural poems and explanation in Tamil and English4.3Wizard WorldGet information from the Harry Potter universe4.3Crossref Metadata SearchBooks & Articles Metadata3.6Quran-apiFree Quran API Service with 90+ different languages and 400+ translations3.6Bhagavad Gita teluguBhagavad Gita API in telugu and odia languages3.3QuranRESTful Quran API with multiple languages2.4Rig VedaGods and poets, their categories, and the verse meters, with the mandal and sukta number2.4Vedic SocietyDescriptions of all nouns (names, places, animals, things) from vedic literature2.4GurbaniNowFast and Accurate Gurbani RESTful API1.7

Companies reaching this through an API (16)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Books” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

AI Agents Archive BeYourCover BookStack Buttondown ColoringBookify DEBYKO FakerAPI KDP Coloring Book Kognitos LuckPanda mahastrategies-com medianfi-com Naver Quietforge Studio Springer Nature Zoho

Score breakdown

Frequency
54.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
15.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.7
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Ebooks 9 co-occurrences Reading 9 co-occurrences Publishing 20 co-occurrences Library 9 co-occurrences Reviews 6 co-occurrences Public APIs 24 co-occurrences Media 13 co-occurrences Metadata 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag66
Api tag56
Openapi tag13
Openapi op tag38

Markets provisional

Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.

MarketShare of the market's providers
Book Publishing (ONIX / ISBN / EPUB supply chain)45%

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 59 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Books, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
59
of 66 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
17
-7.1 vs catalog 24.1
Mean Agent Readiness
9.5
-4.6 vs catalog 14.1
Spread
2.1–60.6
median 13.7 · σ 13.6
How the 59 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 2Thin 10Emerging 20Minimal 25
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Discoverability 56.3 59.1 -2.8 59
Contract Quality 15.8 18.6 -2.8 59
Contract Governance 6.2 9.7 -3.5 59
Operational Transparency 6.2 13.2 -7 59
Developer Ergonomics 16.4 24.5 -8.1 59
Access Clarity 19 30 -11 59

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 12% 18% -6
MCP server (first-party) 10% 16% -6
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 7% 13% -6
Security 100% 99% +1
Arazzo workflows 0% 1% -1
Governance rules 31% 36% -5

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 API League 60.6
  2. 2 Google Books 54.5
  3. 3 Greenlit Books 40.6
  4. 4 The New York Times Company 39.4
  5. 5 Coaching Leader Guide 37.1
  6. 6 Counselor Guide 35
  7. 7 Urantia Papers 34.4
  8. 8 Gutendex 34
  9. 9 WorldCat 31.7
  10. 10 Literal Club 30.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Urantia Papers 44.1
  2. 2 WorldCat 34.6
  3. 3 Google Books 33.9
  4. 4 Gutendex 31.2
  5. 5 API League 31.1
  6. 6 Coaching Leader Guide 30.5
  7. 7 Counselor Guide 30.5
  8. 8 Greenlit Books 29.9
  9. 9 An API of Ice and Fire 28.4
  10. 10 BoekenBase 26.2
All 66 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 59 carry a score (89%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 53 of 59 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 14 November 2026, across 41591 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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  • get_cohortThis tag as a scored cohort — every provider carrying it, with scores.
  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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