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olaf
Wed 31 May 2006, 05:04 pm GMT +0200
Hello,

I'm playing a little bit with the amazon web api and got it running:
<link expired>

I noticed also on other sites that there is no description for books like on:
http://www.amazon.com/...

does someone know how this is possible? and what is your experience with Amazon webservices?

Nikolas
Wed 31 May 2006, 09:27 pm GMT +0200
My experience with Amazon was bad in general.

The problem is that everyone knows this company, so they wont buy from a site.

They will buy directly from them when they need a book.

Now regarding the description thing, I don't understand what your problem really is. Can you explain?

olaf
Wed 31 May 2006, 09:33 pm GMT +0200
yes you're right no one will buy something from a site if they know the original, the same is for templatemonster...

Description:
If you receive the xml stream ther is no tag for the description but if you check the (second) link there is a description. What I don't know is, is there a way to get this into this xml stream?

edit: Nick, why is thread not a CPM marketing item?

Nikolas
Wed 31 May 2006, 09:41 pm GMT +0200
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What I don't know is, is there a way to get this into this xml stream?

I guess there isn't, but you can allways write your own spider to get those infos :)

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Nick, why is thread not a CPM marketing item?

Because Amazon is an affiliate program (they pay percentage of their sales)

olaf
Wed 31 May 2006, 09:46 pm GMT +0200
 :-[

oeps... I think I forgot something about the meaning of CPM (cost per million)

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