[Web4lib] Amazon ratings

[Roy Tennant]

Why wouldn't you just use a mobile phone app like ShopSavvy?:

<http://www.biggu.com/>

To take a picture of the barcode and have it return prices for you? I've
seen teams of people with Blackberry's do this at library book sales, to
scoop up the bargains for resale (although I'm not sure what app they were
using).

My rule is to never write code when something else will do.
Roy


On 6/19/09 6/19/09 € 12:13 PM, "Cab Vinton" <bibliwho at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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