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#660 "Other Sites" Amazon links fail with some ISBNs

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We are currently linking to Amazon detail pages (which have ASINs in the URL) via the magic where ASINs match the ISBN-10s for most book publications, however, this is not always true. We already hack around this for ebooks and 979 prefixes (see [bugs:#257] and [bugs:#573]) but there are other cases as well.

An example is http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?613367 which was published in 2005 with the ISBN-10 1-930847-69-6 but in Amazon it is at ASIN B000VTFAXM. This works https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VTFAXM and this does not: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1930847696.

We should move to Amazon ISBN linking via ISBN-13s in their search links:

  • http://www.amazon.com.au/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon AU
  • http://www.amazon.com.br/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon BR
  • http://www.amazon.ca/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon CA
  • http://www.amazon.cn/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon CN
  • http://www.amazon.de/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon DE
  • http://www.amazon.es/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon ES
  • http://www.amazon.fr/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon FR
  • http://www.amazon.in/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon IN
  • http://www.amazon.it/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon IT
  • http://www.amazon.co.jp/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon JP
  • http://www.amazon.com.mx/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon MX
  • http://www.amazon.nl/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s Amazon NL
  • http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s&tag=isfdb-21 Amazon UK
  • http://www.amazon.com/s?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=%s&tag=isfdbinternes-20 Amazon US

Notice we can still use our Amazon US and UK affiliate tags which we are not currently using for ebook and 979 prefix linking.

Related

Bugs: #257
Bugs: #573

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