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Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools (Hacks)
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Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 381.102854678
EAN: 9780596005429
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596005423
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 302
Publication Date: 2003-08-20
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Amazon Hacks is a collection of tips and tools for getting the most out of Amazon.com, whether you're an avid Amazon shopper, Amazon Associate developing your online storefront and honing your recommendations for better linking and more referral fees, seller listing your own products for sale on Amazon.com, or a programmer building your own application on the foundation provided by the rich Amazon Web Services API. Shoppers will learn how to make the most of Amazon.com's deep functionality and become part of the Amazon community, maintain wishlists, tune recommendations, "share the love" with friends and family, etc. Amazon Associates will find tips for how best to list their titles, how to promote their offerings by fine tuning search criteria and related titles information, and even how to make their store fronts more attractive. And the real power users will use the Amazon API to build Amazon-enabled applications, create store fronts and populate them with items to be picked, packed and shipped by Amazon. And just about anyone can become a seller on Amazon.com, listing items, deciding on pricing, and fulfilling orders for products new and used.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Surprisingly good and very informative
Comment: I've been using Amazon for years and am an active poster of reviews. I was astounded to see just how much I didn't know about Amazon's resources and capabilities.
Even if you're not interested in programming hacks or using Amazon's API, this is still an extremely informative book for any Amazon user.
It provides excellent insight into how Amazon works and the wealth of information you can derive from Amazon.
Jerry
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazon's improving usability renders this book unnecessary
Comment: When this book was first published, it might have been somewhat relevant. However, Amazon has continuously upgraded the usability of its site to the point that where the answer to any question you might actually have about its features is now on the website, including forums where you can discuss individual books, and even a forum where users discuss the well guarded formula for ranking Amazon reviewers, which one clever person came up with via experimentation. Also, Amazon's interface and features are constantly being changed and upgraded, so that some of the specific information in this book is no longer correct. I give this book two stars only because it is well written, but I strongly advise against buying it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nothing special
Comment: All of the information in the book could easily be obtained (for free!) from the Amazon Web Services website. In fact, all I learned from this book was that Amazon's online documentation was VERY complete!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Waste of Money
Comment: I can only assume that the positive reviews were written by relatives and friends of the author. This book is only useful if you are totally unable to search a database by typing in "rolling pin", and if you are interested in doing a lot of programming to accomplish simple and mostly useless tasks. As a seller on Ebay, I found nothing of use in this book, and, as a purchaser, I am capable of finding a "flashlight" without doing a lot of programming. This book is highly oversold. Save your money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A super guide to Amazon!
Comment: This book covers a wide range of tips and tricks for using Amazon. These include at the beginning a range of advice for people who want to know more about shopping on Amazon and using the Friends and Family area and Wish Lists, but you will get a lot more out of it if you have an Amazon Associate account and Developer token with web hosting which supports the use of PHP, as many of the scripts provided only work if you're able to upload them and use them online.
I am a little puzzled that nowhere in the book is it stated that you should not direct link to Amazon's images - all the hacks around the use of images involve direct links even though it states clearly in the Associate terms of service that you should upload images to your own server rather than linking directly to images on Amazon.
Many of the tips are aimed at amazon.com but most will work on all the Amazon sites.
It's a great book and well worth keeping to hand even if you're just browsing around adding to your shopping cart and/or Wish List!
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