diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/amazon_plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/amazon_plugin.py
index a00f508b85..6d64b42a1c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/amazon_plugin.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/amazon_plugin.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # License: GPLv3 Copyright: 2015, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
 
-store_version = 17  # Needed for dynamic plugin loading
+store_version = 18  # Needed for dynamic plugin loading
 
 from contextlib import closing
 try:
@@ -74,7 +74,12 @@ def search_amazon(query, max_results=10, timeout=60,
             aparts = etree.tostring(adiv, method='text', encoding='unicode').split()
             idx = aparts.index('|')
             author = ' '.join(aparts[1:idx])
-            price = ''.join(result.xpath('.//span[contains(@class, "a-price")]/span[contains(@class, "a-offscreen")]/text()'))
+            price = ''
+            for span in result.xpath('.//span[contains(@class, "a-price")]/span[contains(@class, "a-offscreen")]'):
+                q = ''.join(span.xpath('./text()'))
+                if q:
+                    price = q
+                    break
 
             counter -= 1
 
@@ -120,6 +125,5 @@ class AmazonKindleStore(StorePlugin):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     import sys
-
     for result in search_amazon(' '.join(sys.argv[1:]), write_html_to='/t/amazon.html'):
         print(result)