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Product Description Amazon's new Web Services allow any computer application to find and display Amazon product information and initiate commercial transactions. "Power Selling with Amazon.com Web Services" is the only book on Amazon Web Services. Written for professional web developers creating Amazon store fronts and web site owners who want to get a piece of the action by selling for Amazon.com, this unique book focuses on development, not consumer, features. Topics include: Working with Web Services data; Writing applications using VBA, Visual Studio .NET, PHP, Java; Writing applications for mobile devices; Refining/crafting your Web Services program and considering user needs.
Featured Customer Reviews  Has some good info, but still a little thin,
November 24, 2005
I have been programming for 5 years, and so upon scanning the programs, I was able to figure out how to do the things I wanted. The book relies on the XML (for the php section), but does not talk about it very much. It also stresses the use of XSLT, which makes XML easier to read.
I would have liked this book to talk about how to manipulate the XML data better, and also the ins and outs of calling data from amazon.
What this book will do for your is take you a few steps forward if you are having problems getting started. But it falls short of going the whole way. The author leaves the rest up to you from code fragments that you must manipulate.  Out of date, not useful for non-programmers,
December 26, 2004
What i got was a rehash of the now ancient history (2003) versions of Amazon Web Services, and nothing useful from a pratical standpoint.
I didn't expect to use the programing stuff (non outdate), but thought the author might throw in at least one example of someone useing this goldmine for a functioning task.
I'm giving a 2 stars because it doesn't have some of the promised programing discussion, but recomend anyone looking to market books, etc to avoid this one. A good practical introduction to web services,
September 18, 2004Useful for beginners,
August 06, 2004 If you've never been exposed to XML or SOAP and using web services then this is a good book. However, it is by no means a comprehensive treatment of the subject. The reality is that if you download the SDK and spend a little time on the internet you can find all of the same information.Another book about nothing...,
July 02, 2004 First of all, I had a feeling that i was going to purchase
useless book. I just wanted to prove my theory and wasted
my money on it. Well, it's good to be a writer these days...
Pick up some hot commercial name for the book, add a little bit
about everything and here you go - you've wrote a book about
Web Services! It's packed of some web links and some discussion
of XML and SOAP and everything else what you can find in the kit from Amazon. All in all, don't expect to find anything useful
in this book. All you need is the kit and some examples from the Web. I'm planning to donate my book to the local library.good luck!
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