Re: Bookjackets

["Craig A. Summerhill" <summerhi at unr dot edu>]

On 12/16/2004, Deborah Fahrney wrote:
> We have been experimenting with Amazon Bookjackets.  However, we have
> noticed invalid bookjackets.  IE displays these invalid bookjacks as a
> graphical X book jacket that leads to "We're sorry. The Web address you
> entered is not a functioning page on our site". Has anyone experienced
> this problem or found a solution?

What are you using to generate the link?  Are you using WEBADDRESS /
BIBIMAGE variables in the WebOPAC?

My first guess would be that you have generated an invalid link.  We ran
into a similar problem when trying to generate links to Syndetic Solutions.
The problem was that the variables mentioned above were picking up the MARC
010 (LC Accession Number) and trying to build the link with that number.

However, in our case... when the link was invalid... no broken image icon
showed up in the browser.  Nor did a link to Syndetic Solutions show up.


If you are sure your link is valid on these pages, my next best guess would
be that you are generating a valid link... but Amazon simply doesn't have
any cover image for that particular title.  In that case, I thought the
WebOPAC would simply not display anything.  It might be that the URL is
valid, but no data is returned.


If you can cut and paste the linking URL for the broken image, I might be
able to give you a better idea.  Or send me the source code for the entire
page.  Or send me a URL to where I can see the page myself in your WebOPAC.

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