Amazon Standard Identification Number
|
|
The Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) is a product identification number used by Amazon.com. Despite the name, it is not a "standard" in any real sense, and is valid only for referring to products within Amazon.
Each product sold on Amazon.com is given a unique ASIN. For books with an ISBN, the ASIN and the ISBN are the same. Books without an ISBN and other products are also assigned ASINs.
On Amazon's Web site, a product's Web address (URL) always contains its ASIN, and, given the ASIN, you can construct the product's URL in the following manner (as of January 2005):
So, the URL on Amazon for the paperback of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, 4th Edition, whose ISBN is 020530902X, is:
A shorter form of the URL for most products is:
So the URL for Elements of Style, 4th Edition would become:
See also
- Kimba Kano - Browser add-on for built-in ISBN and ASIN searching.
Template:Corp-stubde:Amazon Standard Identification Number no:ASIN da:Amazon Standard Identification Number