Rails - Jul 2007 - Module to track books and their reviews for my users? Amazon access??

I''m currently ''spec''ing out an application to allow
my users to review
books that are topical to their needs. I started ''stealing''
the layout
that Amazon seems to keep for each book and relate it to author,
reviews, vendors, etc.
I''ve come around to the idea that if I could find and keep the
''key''
for each amazon book and use this as a parent record for my users to
review, that I''d be far ahead of the game as no one would have to
enter all the laborious data such as ISBN numbers.
Has anyone found a way to access the Amazon ''books for sale''
database
by a key in their own database? Has anyone written such a ''book
review'' application?
I am grateful to hear any ideas and happy to collaborate.
Thank you,
Kathy
KathysKode-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org


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KathysKode-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> I''m currently ''spec''ing out an application to
allow my users to review
> books that are topical to their needs. I started
''stealing'' the layout
> that Amazon seems to keep for each book and relate it to author,
> reviews, vendors, etc.
> I''ve come around to the idea that if I could find and keep the
''key''
> for each amazon book and use this as a parent record for my users to
> review, that I''d be far ahead of the game as no one would have to
> enter all the laborious data such as ISBN numbers.
> Has anyone found a way to access the Amazon ''books for
sale'' database
> by a key in their own database? Has anyone written such a ''book
> review'' application?
> I am grateful to hear any ideas and happy to collaborate.
> Thank you,
> Kathy
Take a look at Amazon''s ECS Web Service:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=5

Google on:

ECS Amazon Ruby

for some ECS Ruby libraries.

-- 
Michael Wang

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