![]() Currently, any review written by .uk (or.Our goal, however, is to return as much product information as we can. In those cases where Amazon is not the primary owner of the data (such as third-party reviews), we may not be legally able to release that data. Amazon attempts to return as much data as possible for each query.This is mentioned in section 3.2 of API and Integration Guide and repeated below. Legal restrictions prevent us from providing all editorial reviews. I believe this is often due to legal or contractual limitations imposed upon Amazon by the data provider. It is not unusual, especially in non-US locales, for this data to not be available. When the data is available it is usually under Editorial Review.When we fix the issue, reviews that are not written by will still NOT be available via AWS at present. We currently researching issue why some reviews even though written by are not available via AWS. Just to clarify: only Editorial Reviews that are listed on as should be available via AWS.Technical specification Editorial Reviews.I have read through them all, but I will give you the lowdown based on the few proper responses from Amazon staff. Just go to and search for editorial, review, editorial review, book description, description, review. The Amazon Web Services developer blog is full of questions (since 2002/2003…) pertaining to why the book description is not returned on Amazon DE, FR, UK etc. The permission to publish copyrighted material does not include permission to serve as a republisher of the same material (i.e., provide the data via AWS) Amazon can display editorial reviews on their own HTML pages, because they have received permission from the appropriate copyright holders to publish these reviews. ![]() This is often due to legal or contractual limitations imposed upon Amazon by the data provider. It is not unusual, especially in non-US locales, for this data to not be available.Only Editorial Reviews that are listed on as are available via AWS.So to summarize the rules for which descriptions are available through Amazon Web Services: And we do that for a good reason, we almost went bonkers trying to figure out why it did not work for the other Amazon sites. We write in the Book Library Shop features overview that the book description fetching only works reliably from. So these Amazon sites return book descriptions every now and then, without consistency. The problem:īook descriptions are only returned consistently from, FR, UK, JP and CA will not return book descriptions to queries many times. It all has to do with copyright restriction at Amazon, not with Book Library programming. In this article we will take a closer look at why the fetching of book descriptions from Amazon only works consistently from the US site, and inconsistently from other Amazon sites. Help, Book Library does not fetch my book descriptions!
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