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.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 19 Ratings

Waste of Money - 2005-11-12
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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.

Amazon's improving usability renders this book unnecessary - 2006-08-18
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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.

Nothing special - 2006-02-28
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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!

Most Info No Longer Applies due to Amazon Restructuring of Site - 2009-09-30
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Do not bother buying this book. Most of the information in this book is not only outdated, but no longer applies (obsolete). Amazon has changed its site and practices considerably since this book was written.

Examples of obsolete information include lengthy instructions for doing Amazon auctions and listing items on their Z-shops. Both no longer exist on Amazon.

Even the simpliest basic info has changed from the sold ship now emails to shipping to getting paid.

There was so much obsolete and out of date information that it became hard, if not almost impossible to sort out what still could be used in the here and now. In the end, I gave up trying to figure that out (too time consuming) as I didn't trust any of it to still be applicable. So, the book has been tossed into my handy dandy circular file, the only good place for it.

Best to read the site itself for the latest info.

Surprisingly good and very informative - 2006-09-17
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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

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