User:ErsatzCulture/VendorAndPublisherURLPatterns

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EARLY WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Why this page might be of use is left as an exercise to the reader to work out ;-)

Some of these URLs might contain affiliate/tracker/etc IDs from wherever I copied the URL from; none of these should be personally identifying (to me at least) and the URLs may well work perfectly OK without them.

[title-slug] and [author-slug] are where the relevant fields are converted to lower case and spaces, punctuation etc replaced by hyphens e.g.

  • "Joe Bloggs" -> "joe-bloggs"
  • "The Book of Things" -> "the-book-of-things"

Things start getting hairy when you have stuff like numbers (converted to words, roman numerals, or not), author initials, variant names/titles, etc, so such URLs are not always guessable. Ideally you want something that just takes an ID.

Unless otherwise stated, these have only been tested with ISBNs that don't have spaces or hyphens in.

Product pages

Vendors

  • Amazon (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/[ASIN] - ISBN-10s count as ASINs
  • Blackwells: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/[ISBN-13] - note that Blackwells use fake (?) ISBNs beginning with 2 for signed editions, example #1, example #2
  • Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/[ISBN-13]

Publishers

  • Abaddon: no individual product pages that I can see, but see note for Solaris about the Rebellion store
  • Angry Robot: https://www.angryrobotbooks.com/shop/year/[pub-year]/[title-slug]/
  • Gollancz: https://www.gollancz.co.uk/titles/[author-slug]/[title-slug]/[ISBN-13]/ - SF Masterworks now seem to have moved to the SF Gateway and/or Hachette sites
  • Hachette empire (excluding Hodderscape but not Hodder): https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/[author-slug]/[title-slug]/[ISBN-13]/ - other domains are gollancz.co.uk, headline.co.uk, hodder.co.uk, littlebrown.co.uk, sfgateway.com, ...
  • Harper Voyager UK (pre Oct 2020): https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/[ISBN-13]/[title-slug]/ - no product pages on harpervoyagerbooks.co.uk that I can see; the harpercollins.co.uk corporate site is a much better reference. THESE LINKS ARE ALL 404ING AS OF OCTOBER 2020
  • Harper Voyager UK (Oct 2020 onwards): https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/products/[slug]?variant={some-internal-id} - the numeric ID looks a bit ISBNish at first glance, but seems to be some internal (Shopify maybe?) product ID. The markup and page design has also been changed.
  • Head of Zeus: https://headofzeus.com/books/[ISBN-13]
  • Hodder: https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/[author-slug]/[title-slug]/[ISBN-13]/
  • Hodderscape: https://www.hodderscape.co.uk/book/[title-slug]/ - doesn't look like ISBN is accepted; it's likely all info is also on hodder.co.uk, just in a different markup format
  • Orbit (UK), other Little, Brown UK imprints: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/[author-slug]/[title-slug]/[ISBN-13]/
  • Pan / Macmillan UK / Tor UK: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/[author-slug]/[title-slug]/[ISBN-13]
  • Penguin UK: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/[numeric-id]/[numeric-id]/[title-slug]/[ISBN-13].html - yet to work out what the numeric IDs denote, some pages only have one
  • Solaris: no individual product pages that I can see on their main site; the store has URLs like https://www.rebellionstore.com/products/[title_slug_with_underscores]
  • SF Gateway: https://www.sfgateway.com/titles/[author-slug]/[title-slug]/[ISBN-13]/ - doesn't look like the ISBN alone is enough :-(
  • Titan Books: https://titanbooks.com/[numeric-id]-[title-slug]/ - the numeric ID is **maybe** derived from ISBN in some way I've not yet reverse engineered. Products may be for both US and UK markets, or just one of either of these (e.g. stuff published by Tor in the US, or Gollancz in the UK)

Search pages

These are pages that list all matching products. If when searching on an ISBN there's only one match, if the site redirects you to the relevant product page (rather than a list page with a single item) then it'll be in the above product pages section.

Vendors

  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?field-isbn=[ISBN]
  • Apple: http://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/book/isbn[ISBN]?app=music&at=10lwkR - this is useless as it redirects to an itmss:// URL (never change Apple...)
  • ebooks.com: http://www.ebooks.com/aff.asp?AID=42562&term=[ISBN]
  • Google: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=[ISBN]&c=books
  • indiebound: ... TODO ...
  • Kobo: http://kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=[ISBN]


Publishers

... TODO ...


Product lists

Vendors

Publishers

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