Make it so an exact ISBN match takes you to the edition page (unless you find a duplicate)

Bug #579537 reported by George
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
Fix Released
Medium
Edward Betts

Bug Description

Right now, if you do a search for an ISBN - e.g. http://openlibrary.org/search?q=isbn%3A0738208612 - you are taken to the normal search results page, which shows you Works. If you know an ISBN, it would be better to get dropped into the Edition record that matches that ISBN.

This is from direct feedback by our super editor "Fiction Addiction":
"It would also be very helpful if there was some way to send a searcher to a specific edition of a book given certain search parameters. For instance, we usually search by ISBN, which only applies to one edition, but we're sent to the book page that sometimes lists 12 editions or more, and it's a hassle to have to click through all of them to find the one we're looking for."

George (george-archive)
Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → Edward Betts (edwardbetts)
milestone: none → general-bucket
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Edward Betts (edwardbetts) wrote :
Changed in openlibrary:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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