Having a product's ASIN means you're never more
than one click away from its product detail page. The easiest path to
the page is to put the ASIN in any Amazon search box, as seen in
.
Figure 1. Searching by ASIN
Rather than displaying a list of search results for you to choose
from, you'll be taken directly to the product's detail page.
You can also skip the searching altogether and just type in the
URL. Once you're familiar with the URL
pattern, you can plug in any ASIN and get the page you're looking
for. Either of these URLs will take you to the product detail page
for the corresponding ASIN:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/insert ASIN here
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/insert ASIN here/
WARNING
It is Amazon's prerogative to change their URL syntax at any point.
Amazon.com is a constantly evolving application, and its interfaces
change from time to time. You can always find the latest information
about linking to Amazon through their Associates site (http://www.amazon.com/associates/).
If these URLs aren't bringing up a product detail page, you may have
an item that isn't in Amazon's catalog. Chances are good that a book
is in the catalog of at least one of Amazon's properties; it just may
not be available at Amazon.com. Try changing the base
URL to
amazon.co.uk for books from the UK, or
amazon.ca for books from Canada. Amazon's
international sites all follow the same URL conventions:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/insert ASIN here/
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/insert ASIN here/
