diff --git a/crawler/calibre.py b/crawler/calibre.py
index b741d4d..d0e362a 100644
--- a/crawler/calibre.py
+++ b/crawler/calibre.py
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
-import os, time, sys, json, urllib, urllib2, threading, re
+import os, time, sys, urllib, urllib2, threading, re
 from collections import deque
 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
+try:
+	import json
+except:
+	import simplejson as json
+
 STOP = False
 
 pipe_name = 'pipe_books'
diff --git a/crawler/daemon.py b/crawler/daemon.py
index a345603..21dc553 100644
--- a/crawler/daemon.py
+++ b/crawler/daemon.py
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
-import os, time, sys, json, _mysql
+import os, time, sys, _mysql
+
+try:
+	import json
+except:
+	import simplejson as json
 
 def stringdammit(input_string):
 	if isinstance(input_string, str):