Hi,
Some of our clients are using AmazonCoverImages or OPACAmazonCoverImages
system preferences to display cover of items.
But sometimes no cover is found although it exists in Amazon catalog.
It is because images are identified by an internal number (ASIN) in
Amazon whereas Koha uses ISBN. Fo
Hello Sophie
English version is here :
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/help/t5/a16
It would be easy to convert isbn13 into isbn10 and to use it as ASIN.
But it won't work for some brand new books using 979 prefix in isbn13...
M. Saby
Sophie Meynieux a écrit :
Hi,
Some of o
At 04:36 PM 2/4/2013 +0100, Sophie Meynieux wrote:
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It seems that Amazon provides some services to find ASIN from any ISBN but
it's not clear for me how to use it. Has anyone already try them ?
It used to be called "Amazon ECS", now "AWS." We looked into this some time
ago (not for Koha
> It seems that Amazon provides some services to find ASIN from any
> ISBN but it's not clear for me how to use it. Has anyone already try
> them ?
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/EX_LookupbyISBN.html
Currently, Amazon books cover are retrieved simplistically, with a HTML
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Frédéric Demians wrote:
> A better approach would be to do as for GoogleBooks covers: after HTML
> page loading, sending asynchronously requests to Amazon Web Service
> (AWS) in order to get ASIN from ISBN, then book covers, and then
> complete HTML DOM with approp
> A better approach would be to do as for GoogleBooks covers: after HTML
> page loading, sending asynchronously requests to Amazon Web Service
> (AWS) in order to get ASIN from ISBN, then book covers, and then
> complete HTML DOM with appropriate tags.
This discussion assumes that AWS is still us
> This discussion assumes that AWS is still usable by libraries. My
> understanding of the latest terms of AWS is that your application
> must have as its primary purpose the sale of material from Amazon.
> That's one of the reasons other Amazon API features were removed from
> Koha.
I agree. This
> Would this approach not also solve the problem of missing covers for
> movies, many of which seem to lack ISBNs on Amazon?
Yes, AWS allows retrieving ASIN from DVD/CD EAN. And then cover.
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On Feb 5, 2013 7:14 AM, "Frédéric Demians" wrote:
>
> > This discussion assumes that AWS is still usable by libraries. My
> > understanding of the latest terms of AWS is that your application
> > must have as its primary purpose the sale of material from Amazon.
> > That's one of the reasons other
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Chris Cormack wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2013 7:14 AM, "Frédéric Demians" wrote:
>>
>> > This discussion assumes that AWS is still usable by libraries. My
>> > understanding of the latest terms of AWS is that your application
>> > must have as its primary purpose the sal
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Frédéric Demians wrote:
>
> Isn't Open Library the solution?
>
Yes, but most libraries aren't picking Open Library cause the images are so
tini tiny :) So hopefully that is resolved in 3.12 or in a later 3.10
release so that I can start getting everyone to switch!
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Nicole Engard wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Frédéric Demians wrote:
>
>>
>> Isn't Open Library the solution?
>>
>
> Yes, but most libraries aren't picking Open Library cause the images are
> so tini tiny :) So hopefully that is resolved in 3.12 or in a
> The enhancement I want to see is allowing a mix of sources. It's on
> bugzilla but I can't remember the number.
> http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7187
My thoughts on designing such a system:
- On a Koha community server (or cluster of servers, or Koha library
server),
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