[Web4lib] Amazon ratings

[Daniels, Tim]

When I was a branch manager we had a local rare book dealer come by every so often and go through the donations and he would buy the good stuff and anything I did not want to add to the collection went into the friends book sale. 

Tim 

Tim Daniels
Assistant State Librarian for Technology and Infrastructure
Georgia Public Library Service
p 404-235-7151

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cab Vinton" <bibliwho at gmail.com>
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 3:13:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [Web4lib] Amazon ratings

Folks donate used books here by the box-full and it would be helpful
if we had a quick & dirty way of determining both the value of the
items and their quality.

Would like to bounce the following idea of the Collective Brain to see
if it has merit or if there are better alternatives.

1. Have volunteers scan the barcodes/ ISBNs into a text file
2. Use the ISBNs to populate a pseudo-bookstore which will draw off of
Amazon to pull prices and product ratings.
3. Cull the highest priced items for potential sale on Ebay or Amazon.
4. Cull the highest rated items for consideration for addition to our
collection.

Thoughts?

Would be particularly grateful if anyone can provide suggestions for
Step 2. We have an Amazon Associates account & have put up an aStore
-- hmm, sounds a bit rude actually -- but I haven't figured out how to
get product ratings displayed.

Cheers,

Cab Vinton, Director
Sanbornton Public Library
Sanbornton, NH


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