How to form an Amazon Associates link?

January 20, 2009 4:24 AM

How to format an Amazon Associates link?

For various reasons, I need to create an Amazon Associates link for a book not yet on sale. However, I have its ISBN, and I realize that I can create a link for another book and simply slip the ISBN into the URL in the relevant spot. However, the auto-generated Associates links produced by Amazon have lots of other crap in there too. So, finally, my question -- how can I create a simple but working Associates link without having to use the Amazon website wizard?

posted by deeper red to computers & internet (3 comments total)

http://amazon.com/o/asin/B000000OTX/ref=nosim/username-20

This will work.

People can use this as cut & paste or you can make it into a full blown link.
posted by cjorgensen at 4:44 AM on January 20

This will work too:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ISBN####/username

Where 'username' is the username and ISBN#### is the ISBN number.
posted by ostranenie at 7:09 AM on January 20

Another option is:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/ISBN/?tag=USERNAME
posted by LeiaS at 7:49 AM on January 20