Looks like ISBN-13 is the new standard as of 2007, so prob safe to default to that, and only do ISBN-10 if the ISBN-13 doesn’t exist. (Also I believe for ebooks Amazon uses their proprietary ASIN thing which is also 10 chars / same as ISBN if it exists…haha it can get confusing!)
Maybe instead of “Book length: ” it could be "[Format], [length] e.g. “Hardcover, 324p”.
Star rating could probably be in w/ the other in-line data points.
Curious to see various examples w/ different book formats as I think there will be a good amount of variation w/ things like image size, title / author name / publisher name length, etc. Often probably all that data won’t fit on one line. If too much data, publisher & pub date could probably be eliminated.
Price has been emphasized before my changes so not sure if it should also be de-emphasized? I just reused the old Amazon template so it affects all.
Mobile:
I agree that it would be better if rating was moved to the bottom in-line data, but it is somehow hard to read already (especially mobile), maybe using some kind of visual separator would make sense (|or something like it)?
This is what I’ve been meaning to ask actually, looks like using ISBN-13 is a way to go.
All the text comes from Amazon, so it’s not that flexible. That way we don’t have to bother translating it and it works with each localised Amazon store.
There is no localization needed, because also the text comes from the product information table on Amazon so it’s in whatever language the store is. But since it’s nicely concise without any text, I’ll just remove it.
Most of the books I checked have the same amount and order of data available across all Amazon locales (on mobile version which is used for scraping). For those that don’t follow the pattern, onebox won’t include that data.
I was highly annoyed at a university that insisted that my business card include the word “email” before pfaffman@someuniversity.edu. If the person looking at it didn’t know that it was an email address, it wasn’t going to do them any good anyway.
, maybe just get rid of all words, then there is nothing to translate.