1. Chapter 1 Browsing and Searching

   1. Hacks #1-12

   2. Amazon Product Pages

   3. Find a Product's ASIN

   4. Find a CD's ASIN with the UPC

   5. Jump to a Product Using Its ASIN

   6. Create Shorter URLs

   7. Link Directly to Product Images

   8. Switch to a Text-Only Amazon

   9. Take Amazon Anywhere

   10. Browse and Search Categories with Browse Nodes

   11. Power-Search for Books

   12. Search Amazon from the IE Address Bar

   13. Search Amazon from Any Web Page in IE

   14. Add an Amazon Sidebar Search to Mozilla

2. Chapter 2 Controlling Your Information

   1. Hacks #13-26

   2. Understand Identity at Amazon

   3. Fine-Tune Your Recommendations

   4. Enable 1-Click Buying

   5. Set Up a Group Account

   6. Create an "About You" Area

   7. Create a Wish List

   8. Add Items to a Wish List Remotely

   9. Add Multiple Items to a Wish List at Once

   10. Organize Your Wish List by Priority

   11. Set Email and Messages Preferences

   12. Get Movie Showtimes

   13. Create an Amazon Event Reminder

   14. Create Several Birthday Reminders at Once

   15. Best Practices for Your Amazon Account

3. Chapter 3 Participating in the Amazon Community

   1. Hacks #27-48

   2. Community Features

   3. Accessing Community Features

   4. Write a Review

   5. Link Directly to Reviews of a Product

   6. Post a Review from a Remote Site

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

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

   9. Sort Books by Average Customer Rating

   10. Sort Your Recommendations by Average Customer Rating

   11. Scrape Product Reviews

   12. Publish Your Amazon Reviews on Your Site

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

   14. Create a Guide

   15. Post a Guide Remotely

   16. Add Product Advice Remotely

   17. Scrape Customer Advice

   18. Create a Listmania! List

   19. Gather Your Friends on Amazon

   20. Gather Your Friends' Amazon IDs

   21. Get Purchase Circle Products with Screen Scraping

   22. Find Purchase Circles by Zip Code

   23. Track the Ranks of Books Over Time

   24. Group Conversations About Books

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

4. Chapter 4 Selling Through Amazon

   1. Hacks #49-58

   2. Understanding Amazon's Sales Programs

   3. Sell a Book with Amazon Marketplace

   4. Speed Up the Listing Process

   5. List Several Items for Sale at Once

   6. Sell What People Want

   7. Scope Out the Marketplace Competition

   8. List Your Items for Sale on Your Web Site

   9. Put an Item Up for Bid at Amazon Auctions

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

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

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

5. Chapter 5 Associates Program

   1. Hacks #59-75

   2. Make Money by Linking to Amazon

   3. Build Associate Links

   4. Sell Items from Your Site

   5. Sell Items with Pop-up Windows

   6. Create Banner Ads for Your Site

   7. Rotate Through Several Keyword Banners on Your Site

   8. Add an Amazon Search Box to Your Site

   9. Show Amazon Search Results on Your Site

   10. Create an Online Store

   11. Donate to Charities Through Associate Links

   12. Format a Review for Your Site

   13. Create Amazon Associate Links on Your Movable Type Weblog

   14. Simplify Amazon Associate Links in Your Blosxom Weblog

   15. Add an Amazon Box to Your Site

   16. Deep Linking to Amazon's Mobile Device Pages

   17. Measure Your Associate Sales

   18. Publish Your Associate Sales Statistics on Your Site

   19. Associates Program Best Practices

6. Chapter 6 Amazon Web Services

   1. Hacks #76-100

   2. What Are Web Services?

   3. Why Expose an API?

   4. What You Need

   5. What You Can Do

   6. Making Requests

   7. The RESTful Way: XML/HTTP

   8. SOAP Web Services

   9. Working With Responses

   10. View XML Responses in a Browser

   11. Embed Product Details into a Web Page with PHP

   12. Program AWS with PHP

   13. Program AWS with Python

   14. Program AWS with Perl

   15. Loop Around the 10-Result Limit

   16. Program XML/HTTP with VBScript

   17. Transform AWS Results to HTML with XSLT

   18. Work Around Products Without Images

   19. Syndicate a List of Books with RSS

   20. Import Data Directly into Excel

   21. Program AWS with SOAP and VB.NET

   22. Program AWS with SOAP::Lite and Perl

   23. Program AWS with NuSOAP and PHP

   24. Create a Wireless Wish List

   25. Make Product Titles Shorter

   26. Encode Text for URLs

   27. Cache Amazon Images Locally

   28. Cache AWS Responses Locally

   29. Create an Amazon AIM Bot

   30. Compare International Sales

   31. Program AWS with Mozilla

   32. Search or Browse Amazon with Watson

   33. Add Cover Art to Your Digital Music Collection

   34. Using All Consuming's SOAP and REST Interfaces

1. Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The tool on the cover of Amazon Hacks is a machete. The machete is a cleaver-like knife that is normally used to clear land or cut a path through thick vegetation. Unfortunately, it can also be used as a weapon. Emily Quill was the production editor and copyeditor for Amazon Hacks. Melanie Wang was the proofreader. Colleen Gorman, Sarah Sherman, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Jamie Peppard and Mary Agner provided production assistance. Tom Dinse and Johnna VanHoose Dinse wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is an original photograph by Ellie Volckhausen. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia Free-Hand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Emily Quill.