Hey Starhawk...
Yea. .... You're finding something that isn't 100% a bug, but more of a availability issue.
For the tracker component, we rely on what is available to us via the Amazon API. Annnnnnnnnnnnnd.... we're finding, as our users are, that Amazon hasn't quite updated that Amazon API database with all the Kindle books (we hope thats just "yet").
So, its not quite a bug, but more of an annoyance.
What you will find however, is on the price search on the right side, it DOES work... Why you might ask. Well, for that, we don't use the API because we don't need to do all the fancy stuff with it that the tracker does. Bummer, I know!
So, hopefully that makes sense? If not, please let me know!
As for bug #2...
OHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Very nice!
I think you just gave us a hint on how to handle the is-it-kindleitizied!!!
We are primarily using the code from our existing site-wide search of amazon.com and tracking capabilities found over at the "habitat" (
http://www.zoolert.com/habitat) .... We handle the out-of-stock the way we do because we weren't taking into account the way the kindle books are listed......
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
The wheels are spinning.
You sir may have helped us get closer to providing our #1 wish with you bug
THANK YOU!
(And please, everyone, feel free to keep the comments coming,.. This is how we are able to keep making things better!)
Oh yea - ISBN... Should work good... Just drop the "-" for the time being. Let me know if you are finding different.
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Originally Posted by Starhawk
Here's a bug report...There's a book available on Amazon both as a Kindle book and hardcover titled "Dragonheart: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern".
The Kindlemart search didn't find it...neither did it find it when I searched for "Dragonheart" or "dragonriders".
I also searched using the ISBN number from the hardcover, both the ISBN-10 and the ISBN-13 numbers. No results. BTW, which does the Kindlemart search use both the 10 and 13 digit versions?
That's mostly bug #1.
Bug #2
On searching for "dragonriders", it found the book titled "Dragonriders of Pern", and listed it as being out of stock, which didn't make sense to me. When I went to Amazon to find it via the link provided in the Kindlemart search results, the page said that it was "Not yet available", which is rather different from being out of stock.
So....maybe the search results could reflect that status more accurately?
Thanks for this! I haven't used it successfully to find anything yet, but it sounds like it should be awesome!
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