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Credits



Foreword



Preface



Chapter 1. Browsing and Searching

1. Find a Product's ASIN

2. Find a CD's ASIN with the UPC

3. Jump to a Product Using Its ASIN

4. Create Shorter URLs

5. Link Directly to Product Images

6. Switch to a Text-Only Amazon

7. Take Amazon Anywhere

8. Browse and Search Categories with Browse Nodes

9. Power-Search for Books

10. Search Amazon from the IE Address Bar

11. Search Amazon from Any Web Page in IE

12. Add an Amazon Sidebar Search to Mozilla



Chapter 2. Controlling Your Information

13. Understand Identity at Amazon

14. Fine-Tune Your Recommendations

15. Enable 1-Click Buying

16. Set Up a Group Account

17. Create an "About You" Area

18. Create a Wish List

19. Add Items to a Wish List Remotely

20. Add Multiple Items to a Wish List at Once

21. Organize Your Wish List by Priority

22. Set Email and Messages Preferences

23. Get Movie Showtimes

24. Create an Amazon Event Reminder

25. Create Several Birthday Reminders at Once

26. Best Practices for Your Amazon Account



Chapter 3. Participating in the Amazon Community

27. Write a Review

28. Link Directly to Reviews of a Product

29. Post a Review from a Remote Site

30. Add Pop-up Amazon Reviews to Your Web Site

31. Send an Email Alert if a Review Is Added to a Product

32. Sort Books by Average Customer Rating

33. Sort Your Recommendations by Average Customer Rating

34. Scrape Product Reviews

35. Publish Your Amazon Reviews on Your Site

36. Share the Love (and Savings!) with Your Friends

37. Create a Guide

38. Post a Guide Remotely

39. Add Product Advice Remotely

40. Scrape Customer Advice

41. Create a Listmania! List

42. Gather Your Friends on Amazon

43. Gather Your Friends' Amazon IDs

44. Get Purchase Circle Products with Screen Scraping

45. Find Purchase Circles by Zip Code

46. Track the Ranks of Books Over Time

47. Group Conversations About Books

48. Add a "Currently Reading" List to Your Web Site



Chapter 4. Selling Through Amazon

49. Sell a Book with Amazon Marketplace

50. Speed Up the Listing Process

51. List Several Items for Sale at Once

52. Sell What People Want

53. Scope Out the Marketplace Competition

54. List Your Items for Sale on Your Web Site

55. Put an Item Up for Bid at Amazon Auctions

56. Get (and Keep!) a Good Seller Rating

57. Collect Donations from Your Web Site with the Honor System

58. Show the Progress of Your Honor System Fund on Your Site



Chapter 5. Associates Program

59. Build Associate Links

60. Sell Items from Your Site

61. Sell Items with Pop-up Windows

62. Create Banner Ads for Your Site

63. Rotate Through Several Keyword Banners on Your Site

64. Add an Amazon Search Box to Your Site

65. Show Amazon Search Results on Your Site

66. Create an Online Store

67. Donate to Charities Through Associate Links

68. Format a Review for Your Site

69. Create Amazon Associate Links on Your Movable Type Weblog

70. Simplify Amazon Associate Links in Your Blosxom Weblog

71. Add an Amazon Box to Your Site

72. Deep Linking to Amazon's Mobile Device Pages

73. Measure Your Associate Sales

74. Publish Your Associate Sales Statistics on Your Site

75. Associates Program Best Practices



Chapter 6. Amazon Web Services

76. View XML Responses in a Browser

77. Embed Product Details into a Web Page with PHP

78. Program AWS with PHP

79. Program AWS with Python

80. Program AWS with Perl

81. Loop Around the 10-Result Limit

82. Program XML/HTTP with VBScript

83. Transform AWS Results to HTML with XSLT

84. Work Around Products Without Images

85. Syndicate a List of Books with RSS

86. Import Data Directly into Excel

87. Program AWS with SOAP and VB.NET

88. Program AWS with SOAP::Lite and Perl

89. Program AWS with NuSOAP and PHP

90. Create a Wireless Wish List

91. Make Product Titles Shorter

92. Encode Text for URLs

93. Cache Amazon Images Locally

94. Cache AWS Responses Locally

95. Create an Amazon AIM Bot

96. Compare International Sales

97. Program AWS with Mozilla

98. Search or Browse Amazon with Watson

99. Add Cover Art to Your Digital Music Collection

100. Using All Consuming's SOAP and REST Interfaces

Index