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The Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) is a unique identification number assigned by Amazon.com and its partners for product identification within the Amazon.com organization.[1] This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Amazon. ...


Each product sold on Amazon.com is given a unique ASIN. For books with 10-digit ISBN, the ASIN and the ISBN are the same. Books without an ISBN and other products are also assigned ASINs. ASINs are also used for other items used by Amazon.com (and subsidiaries), such as businesses in the yellow pages (on A9.com) and OpenSearch feeds. The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN (sometimes pronounced is-ben), is a unique[1] identifier for books, intended to be used commercially. ... Screenshot of the home page A9. ... OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. ...


Proponents of the free culture movement such as Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, have criticized the ASIN as an example of a proprietary product identifier, arguing that it draws producers—especially smaller ones—into a lock-in with Amazon, and proposed the creation of an open alternative where producers could register product IDs for a marginal fee without proprietary control, and the resulting databases would be available under a free license.[2] The Free Culture Movement is a student led movement that supports freedom of speech on the Internet and objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, which, members of the movement argue, hinders creativity. ... Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ... Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales, (born August 7, 1966)[2] is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for his role in founding Wikipedia, as well as other wiki-related projects, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Wikia, Inc. ... Proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties. ... In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in, customer lock-in, lock-in is where a customer is dependent on a vendor for products and services and cannot move to another vendor without substantial switching costs, real and/or perceived. ... Free content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content upon which no legal restriction has been placed that significantly interferes with peoples freedom to use, redistribute, improve, and share the content. ...


ASIN in Amazon URLs

On Amazon's USA-targeted web site, a product's web address (URL) always contains its ASIN in the format of: // Uniform Resource Locator (URL) formerly known as Universal Resource Locator, is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: In popular usage and many technical documents, it is a synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI); Strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable...

http://amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN-VALUE-HERE

The former format was http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/ASIN-VALUE-HERE.


Therefore the URL on Amazon for the paperback of Strunk, White, and Roger Angell's The Elements of Style, 4th Edition, whose ISBN is 020530902X, is: William Strunk Jr. ... Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899, Mount Vernon, New York – October 1, 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist. ... Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920), is an important figure in the world of American letters, having spent the vast majority of his career as a fiction editor and regular contributor at The New Yorker. ... The Elements of Style, 2000 edition. ...

http://amazon.com/gp/product/020530902X

A shorter form of the URL for most products is:

http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/ASIN-VALUE-HERE

An even shorter form of the URL is:

http://amazon.com/dp/ASIN-VALUE-HERE (dp="detail page")

So the URL for Elements of Style, 4th Edition would become:

http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/020530902X

Similar URLs can be constructed for Amazon sites in other countries, such as:

http://amazon.co.uk/o/ASIN/020530902X
http://amazon.de/o/ASIN/020530902X
http://amazon.fr/o/ASIN/020530902X

However, not all sites carry all titles—e.g. ASIN 393206402X is only available on the German version of Amazon.


See also

  • Kimba Kano: A browser add-on for built-in ISBN and ASIN searching.

Screenshot of Internet Explorer with Kimba Kano Kimba Kano is a software program that integrates with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox to allow built-in searching of Wikipedia, Amazon. ...

References

  1. ^ Amazon help: 'What is an ASIN?'
  2. ^ Jimmy Wales: Ten Things That Will Be Free Wikimania 2005 keynote, August 2005. Section 8. Free the Product Identifiers!. Video (1:07:51)
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