PS: If you do need to request a new API key, I reccommend when
describing the purpose of your use, you make sure to emphasize adding
links to Amazon to library pages. Which shouldn't be a lie, if you are
indeed doing that. I consider adding such a link a reasonable 'cost' of
using the API for i
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Tim Spalding wrote:
> I think it's a terrible mistake for them. Their marginal cost is zero;
> they don't need to do this.
Their marginal cost may be quite low, but I'm fairly sure it's not
zero. Cycles, storage, and bandwidth aren't free.
Amazon has never struc
In fact, I believe that library-sector developers have asked Amazon and
been told that their use is allowed. But definitely, there's no
guarantee this will always continue be true. The terms of use don't seem
to have substantially changed to me, but they could always start
enforcing them more s
They're also tightened up the API in various ways, and renamed it the
"Amazon.com Product Advertising API." Although I know of no case when
Amazon has shut down a library, it would be hard for any to claim
their site had "as their principal purpose advertising and marketing
the Amazon Site and driv
The Amazon products API keeps changing it's name, and has just been
changed to Amazon "Product Advertising API" -- it's the one you use to
look up books in Amazon and get metadata for them, though.
It looks from an email I got from Amazon that ss of August 15th, you'll
need to cryptographicall
