diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py
index 3b219d2d1e..3e90d35e8f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py
@@ -534,9 +534,8 @@ class Worker(Thread):  # Get details {{{
                     desc = nr.xpath('//div[@id="productDescription"]/*[@class="content"]')
                     if desc:
                         ans += self._render_comments(desc[0])
-                except Exception:
-                    import traceback
-                    traceback.print_exc()
+                except Exception as e:
+                    self.log.warn('Parsing of obfuscated product description failed with error: %s' % as_unicode(e))
 
         return ans