EBSCO was having trouble getting them from their Excel sheets (they do both Excel and ONIX), so we added them to our ONIX 2.1 and ONIX 3 output. It seems to have helped the EBSCO situation. No idea if any other vendors are using the data, but we send it. SubjectSchemeIdentifier “04”

Hi Chris,

Not really. Sales reps are still asking me only to list hardcovers as related products, and Dave at Yankee Book Peddler is still asking me to list them separately. This time around I just created a second catalog that listed them all separately, and left them as related products in the regular seasonal catalog.

Hi Samara. I’m new in this group and am curious to know if you got this question resolved, and if so, what was ultimately decided and why? Thanks in advance!

Thanks! And it’s definitely the case that Amazon is a master of being obscure.

We list them individually-adding both ISBNs. We just display them next to each other in our Edelweiss catalogs.

B&N display’s TOCs and I believe Amazon UK as well. I was told (by someone at BISG I think that they believe Amazon US uses the TOC internally for Keywords, etc…but hard to say what Amazon truely does and doesn’t do).

Thanks, Katie. We’ve also just modified our website feed to be able to display TOCs.

Problem is, when our title mgmt system was modified to enable <contentdetail> TOCs, the implementer didn’t grasp that the content item sequence number (LevelSequenceNumber = b284) is not the same thing as Component Number (ComponentNumber = b289). The former…[Read more]

Hi @davidrsewell,

We have TOC data in our ONIX feeds and it displays on the book pages on our website and Edelweiss.

It also feeds to CoreSource, so it is available for any partners that will take it, but that is a moving target. Similar to your experience, we have not seen Amazon display the TOC data on book pages.

Katie

As an aside, the English teacher in me wants to say that the “abridged” adjective is in the wrong place. This is the second iteration of the abridged edition, so my instinct is that you to call it the “2nd abridged edition” because it comes after the “(implied: 1st) abridged edition”.

This has nothing to do, of course, with traditional naming…[Read more]

Thanks, Jana!

For future reference–we ended up using “2nd Edition” and using the supply chain metadata to connect the new edition ISBNs to the previous, abridged edition ISBNs, and will also be referencing the previous edition in our marketing copy, keywords, etc.

My inclination would be to make it 2nd edition, abridged just to be perfectly clear and to not have to worry about any misunderstandings. But you may be right about the description and supply chain data making the relationship clear.

Thanks, @kristacoulson! That’s really helpful.

The presence of the <AlternativeName> block within <Contributor> blocks in ONIX 3 and the use of ORCIDs or ISNIs are meant to deal with the situation, but the question exists of whether they are used/accepted by the database you’re using or the vendors you’re sending to. It may be that you can’t do AlternativeName, but you can have their old name…[Read more]