More Amazon International Sites?

Curious whether there are any plans to add additional Amazon country sites to Add Books, and whether the technical end of this has been investigated (i.e. whether they would have the same back-end to allow this integration as .com, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .jp, etc.)

On a personal level, my interest stems largely from my plans to add a large number of international prizes from countries less well-served by library catalogs (or at least by catalogs that have been integrated into LT). To date I've largely been focused on English and French-language awards, but peeking ahead to various other awards indicates to me that the Amazon catalogs would be helpful in avoiding 100% manual entry. In particular, my head-desk experience in attempting to enter some of the Sahitya Akademi awards (in 24 Indian languages) made me wish dearly for the ability to import from amazon.in; I'm sure, though, that the others will prove useful as well. Let me know whether this is something that might be considered.

Here is the current list of Amazon sites, per Wikipedia:
Sovereignty Domain name
Asia
China amazon.cn
z.cn
India amazon.in
Japan amazon.co.jp
Europe
France amazon.fr
Germany amazon.de
Italy amazon.it
Netherlands amazon.nl
Spain amazon.es
Ireland amazon.ie
United Kingdom amazon.co.uk
North America
Canada amazon.ca
Mexico amazon.com.mx
United States amazon.com
Oceania Australia amazon.com.au
South America Brazil amazon.com.br

I'm somewhat confused. Adding international awards is admirable, but even if it requires adding new books to your catalog I'm not sure why Amazon sources vs. libraries would be required. What am I missing?

I'll take additional libraries, too -- preferentially, even -- if you can integrate them. The Amazon sources strike me as low-hanging fruit, though, since I imagine the integration process is likely to be more standardized and/or straightforward.

(edited to add:)
I may make a project of trying to gather additional library integration details. It's worth noting, however, that a significant amount of the material I'm looking at adding does not appear in Worldcat, and of that amount, a certain percentage *does* appear on one or more international Amazon sites. So, unless we're contemplating integrating libraries into LT that don't integrate into Worldcat (possible, but somehow less than plausible), adding the Amazon catalogs is going to provide access to otherwise inaccessible records. Some of the Amazon records might even be of high enough quality as to provide an alternative to adding the records manually.

Your message did inspire me to add the only details for Indian z39.50 servers I could find to the list at http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/New_book_sources#Suggested . Anecdotal reports of their connectivity status are not great, though (http://kohageek.blogspot.com/2014/04/z3950-servers-available-in-india.html), and I'm not set up to test from this end.

Also added Toronto Public Library to the list of recommended additions, including connectivity details from their website. It would be MASSIVELY helpful for adding the IBBY Outstanding Books for Children with Disabilities, which I'm working on right now, since it houses that collection.

>1 davidgn:

I'm not sure whethere all of those are real - the "Irish Amazon" for example redirects to amazon.co.uk. Similarly z.cn redirects to amazon.cn.

Fair enough; I just grabbed the Wiki list for convenience, without vetting (and, to be sure, z.cn is shown as a redirect). Otherwise, I think the list is good.

Now I'm working on Kansas's state book awards and realizing that we don't have any Kansas libraries. Adding a few more z39.50s to that list...

http://www.librarything.com/topic/106118#2757912

I assume this would have been implimented if the situation had changed.

Thanks for dredging that up! And I imagine so as well, so long as everyone is on the same page.