[Koha-devel] Amazon Cover Images

[Mathieu Saby]

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 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. For old books, ASIN and ISBN10 are the 
> same, but since ISBN13 exists, ASIN and ISBN do not match any more.
>
> This is explained here (I could not find the same page in english, but 
> maybe you it could be translated) : 
> https://partenaires.amazon.fr/gp/associates/help/t23/a1
>
> 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 ?
>
> Sophie
>


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