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Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools (Hacks)
by Paul Bausch
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Features:

• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Surprisingly good and very informative
  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

• Amazon's improving usability renders this book unnecessary
  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... more info

• Nothing special
  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!

• Waste of Money
  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.
  

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