AW: Buying Gemstone on Amazon - Not easy

Cord Wiljes cord at wiljes.de
Fri Nov 14 13:30:52 CET 2003


Amazon Germany is much better at listing the correct issue numbers of
current Gladstone issues than the French store, even better than the
U.S. parental site. Here is what you can do:

Go to the product page in your French store, example:
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0911903135/

Replace the top-level domain '.fr' manually by '.de':
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0911903135/
There it says: #634

Or you can go to www.amazon.de right away and search for the ISBN.

By further replacing the top level domains '.com':
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0911903135/
and '.co.uk':
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0911903135/

...I suppose that the German store gets its data from the UK (with issue
numbers) while the French gets it from the U.S. (without issue numbers).
So I would predict that if Gemstone would supply amazon.com with good
product data (they have a publisher interface format) the data would
reach the French site automatically.

Cord




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