Central Books has an on-line ordering facility at www.centralbooks.co.uk. This site shows the availability of all the books we distribute and all the magazine back issues that we have in stock.
Publishers that we distribute may wish to have hyperlinks on their website to direct potential trade or mail order customers to this on-line ordering facility. There are a number of hyperlinks that we can recommend to connect your site to ours some of these involve length scripts but can be copied from the lists below. Once your site visitor has jumped to our on-line catalogue they will be able to search for further titles to buy on our site. The secure site has been put together using Actinic software. If you wish to know more about the security of Actinic software please download security.pdf. Please follow the guidelines below or you may create a link that goes out of date within one week, see Alert.
A general hyperlink to the search
pages http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html. This will give the
user the ability to look up any book we distribute.
A link to a particular title by isbn.
For example to the hyperlink straight to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by
Ken Kesey ISBN 9780714508719 Is the following:
http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/&SS=9780714508719&PR=-1&TB=A.
This drops the customer straight into our www.centralbooks.co.uk site at the
required title, the customer then needs to click on the title to move to the
next page, where they can add it to their order. If the ISBN was 9780862104214
then the hyperlink would be
http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/&SS=9780862104214&PR=-1&TB=A.
A link to all the books or magazines
published by a publisher. For example all Amnesty International UK titles can be
found using the hyperlink
http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/&SS=AMNESTY%20INTERNATIONAL&PR=-1&TB=A.
At the moment we are not happy with the ordering of the books found in this
search, we hope to have them in alphabetical order soon.
Other examples:
Angela Kilmartin
http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/&SS=ANGELA%20KILMARTIN&PR=-1&TB=A
To link to a title without an ISBN
you will need to know its Central Books product code. You can see this by going
to a http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/search.html entering the title's
details in the search box, clicking on the title in the results found and then
you should see the ISBN or product code just under the publishers name. You can
now use this code in the same was as you can use an ISBN. For example to
hyperlink straight to "Eye 42 Vol10 Winter 2001"
http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/&SS=MEYE48&PR=-1&TB=A.
This drops the customer straight into our www.centralbooks.co.uk site at the
required title, the customer then needs to click on the title to move to the
next page, where they can add it to their order. If the code was MSSF009 then
the hyperlink would be
http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/&SS=MSSF009&PR=-1&TB=A.
If you or your website designer have problems regarding these links or would
like a list of relevant codes please get in touch with Mark Chilver.
Please note that the website www.centralbooks.co.uk is updated weekly not daily.
So when you publish a book it can take 7 days until it shows as available rather
than not yet published.
ALERT: If you open up
www.centralbooks.co.uk find the page with your book and then use that as a
hyperlink it will go wrong within one week. We have tens of thousands of titles
and over 400 publishers, when we take on a publisher or add one book this can
re-sort all the page numbers on the weekly update.