Amazon UK - Akan Datang
Bookjetty currently returns search result from Amazon US, which usually only lists the latest book edition published in the US or Canada.
Different book publications or different book editions have different identifier (ISBN). So a book listed maybe shown as not found, but other editions could be available in the library. Search other editions feature introduced earlier has helped to check if other book editions are available in the library.
BUT…(somehow there’s always a BUT), lately I found out that xISBN is not exhaustive enough, on some cases, it does not include books published in the UK. Yet some novels (fiction/non-fiction) found in the library are published in the UK. For example if you search “Five people you meet in heaven” or “Incredibly Close“, two great novels, Bookjetty returns not found, and xISBN returns no other editions found. It is correct that the US editions are not found in the library, but it does not solve the problem, the library has the UK editions.
Lucky us, Amazon also provides a webservice point to its UK store. Preliminary investigation using the two books above and Amazon UK search engine, showed affirmative results, they were matched against the ones found in the library. So stay tuned, Bookjetty and Amazon UK - Akan Datang (Coming Soon).


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