Books & publishing: paperback, hardcover, collector, audio — one title
Two editions of the same novel share the same title and have two different ISBNs. Your customers sometimes search for one, sometimes the other.
One title, four distinct products
A bookstore catalog stacks several axes — title, author, genre, format, edition, language (the detail of each attribute). The same work exists in paperback, hardcover, collector's, and audio: four products, four prices, one title. Indexing just one of these axes misses half the searches.
ISBN, format and edition untangled
The livres rule pack activates when you pick this industry, at indexing time. It produces these annotations, each becoming a usable filter:
| Annotation | What it isolates |
|---|---|
ISBN_9782070413119 | the isolated ISBN, with or without hyphens |
FORMAT_POCHE | the format — pocket, paperback, hardcover, illustrated, audio |
GENRE_POLAR | the genre, nine families from crime to poetry |
ED_COLLECTOR | the special edition — collector, bilingual, annotated |
LANG_EN | the book's language, original and translated |
The nine genres run from crime to poetry, by way of SF, fantasy, children's, comics, essay, classic and novel — “manga” and “comics” come in with the comics family, “thriller” and “policier” with crime. The five formats and the three editions then cross freely, and that is where the trade's difficulty lies: the same title exists in pocket, in hardcover, as a collector and as audio — four products, four prices, four stock levels, and nothing in the title to separate them.
Three books, as cataloged
| Indexed reference | What the engine extracts |
|---|---|
| 978-2-07-041311-9 · The Little Prince, paperback | ISBN_9782070413119 · FORMAT_POCHE · GENRE_CLASSIQUEISBN recognized, paperback, classic |
| Scandinavian noir, hardcover collector's edition | GENRE_POLAR · FORMAT_GF · ED_COLLECTOR · COLLECTOR_GRAND_FORMATcrime novel, hardcover, collector's edition |
| Bilingual essay FR/EN | GENRE_ESSAI · ED_BILINGUE · LANG_FR · LANG_ENessay, bilingual French-English edition |
Three forms of one identifier
One customer types an ISBN with hyphens, another without, a third pastes an ISBN-10 while you index in ISBN-13. Three forms of the same identifier, and any one of them should be enough to find the book.
The same title, the right edition
The books pack recognizes the ISBN regardless of punctuation. It also cross-references genre, format, and edition, letting you offer “the same title in paperback” instead of an empty result on an out-of-print edition.
A term specific to your catalog that the pack still misses (a publisher-specific collection mention, for example)? Add your own Custom Rule from the console, simply describing what it should recognize — no regex required.
Index your bookstore catalog
The getting started guide covers the full setup, from sign-up to your first indexed catalog. The documentation details every endpoint.
Watch the breakdown happen. The table above is the engine's output, not hand-written. The same mechanism runs on the home page, with no signup — on a hardware or fashion catalog, not books. What you see there is the annotation mechanism itself, the one the livres pack applies to your ISBNs and formats.