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Tapping into the Power of Amazon's Product Advertising
API
Amazon.com started off around 15 years ago as a bookstore. Now they have evolved
into a massive retail giant that offers everything from topics to cloud computing servers
and more. Recently, they've expanded their music offerings quite a bit, and developers
who feature music or videos in their apps may want to provide links to purchase these
resources through Amazon.
The Amazon Product Advertising API ( https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html , Figure 11-15) is a massive web site so we can
only highlight its main features here. You could literally spend days exploring everything
you can do with Amazon's data, all with the goal of driving revenue through offering
Amazon products for sale through your app.
Figure 11-15. The Amazon Product Advertising API
Amazon offers not only documentation on their API, but also developer forums where
you can ask other developers for help and even code samples, which can get you up
and running quickly.
A few quick searches of the code database uncovers a very interesting piece of code for
anyone looking to build an application that showcases a particular artist. Say you're in a
band and want to build an app for your band. You've decided to build a web app, since
that will easily run on everyone's smartphone, and you're storing your concert
recordings, demos, and albums in Amazon's S3 cloud storage. How might we go about
selling those to fans? There's a demo for it, known as iObjects ( http://j.mp/iobjects ,
Figure 11-16).