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You
want to find BASIN numbers for
your out of print books, so you
can list them on Amazon's new
pre-ISBN database on
Marketplace.
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For Example: Let's
pretend you
have a copy of The
Engineers Sketchbook,
6th Edition, 1923, by
Thomas Barber.
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You
can search on Amazon,
via the Advanced
Search Page,
Author/Title. This is
how its usually done,
before the advent of
GrabIt! Click the
Advanced Search page bookmark,
type in Author and
Title, click Search.
Get results.
1
- 9 of 9 results for barber
and engineers sketch
book : There
are actually 12
results. Which one is
the 6th edition of
1923?
Starting
from the top: Click.
Click. Wrong. Back
button. Click. Wrong.
Back button. Back
button. Click. Click.
Wrong. Back button.
Click. Wrong. Back
button. Back button.
Click. Wrong. Back
button. Click. Click.
Wrong. Back button.
Click. Wrong. Back
button. Back button.
Click.
Got
it! 21 clicks and ten
minutes later we have
the BASIN we are
looking for.
Copy/Paste and we are
done.
Now
onto the next
search...
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Or,
you can do this with
GrabIt!
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Type in
author and title into the Biblio tab
at the top of GrabIt! and click on
the Green
Get Records button:
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Wait
3-5 seconds, get 12 results:
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Seventh
in the list is what we want, so click
the Green
Add button to add the BASIN to the
ASIN/ISBN lookup table, creating a
new record number in BookTrakker for
the book. (If you want to see the
listing for this book on Amazon,
click the Blue
Amz button. A browser window will
open up to this specific listing.)
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Move
onto the next item in your pile of
books to lookup. Click the Biblio tab
at the top, click Clear List, repeat
the process.
When
you are done, click the Search tab at
the bottom, then click Get ASIN/ISBN
Data. Verify the results, then click
Transfer to BookTrakker to create new
records ready for upload to Amazon.
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