Amazon price information?

viewer
Hi!

Is there a possibility to save the price information from Amazon together with the bibliographic information? For my needs it would be a helpful feature if Zotero could automatically extract the price information from the Amazon website and store it together with the other information.
I dont know if Zotero already has this feature. Are there some workarounds for this?


Thanks

David
  • bdarcus
    Put the information in a note?

    It doesn't make much sense for Zotero to explicitly deal with pricing data, as beyond it not being particularly relevant for citations, it would open a huge can of worms (you want Amazon, I want Borders, and someone else wants their local B & M).
  • adamsmith
    no - and it's very unlikely to happen - Zotero uses an Amazon service, which supplies the metadata to books - as far as I know that doesn't include the price (which, of course, is more volatile than the rest of the information) - so there isn't much of an alternative to writing it down yourself.
  • viewer
    edited June 12, 2010
    okay...
    I'm working with books in Germany, so the book prices do not differ. Regardless if I buy them from Amazon, the local bookstore in my city or a different bookstore 700km away... it's forbidden by law that a book is sold with a different price somewhere else in Germany. The price is even a pretty good constant over long periods of time, since booksellers are not allowed to give any rebates or do their own advertising for books.

    I will try to write the price as a note.

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