Talk:Amazon Standard Identification Number

message: The format used by WIkipedia to link to Amazon sites in Special:Booksources is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020530902X
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/020530902X
This seems more straightforward than the format described in the article, but it is not described. 
The returned page on Amazon has the format:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/020530902X/
Why so many variations? RayGates 13:40, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Backwards compatibility. Obidos is no longer used on the US site.
The shortest form seems to be:
code http://amzn.com/dp/[ASIN] /code
...with "[ASIN]" replaced with the actual ASIN. The Grand Rascal (talk) 17:23, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: ASIN URL format

message: "On Amazon's USA-targetted web site, a product's Web address (URL) always contains its ASIN, and, given the ASIN, a user can construct the product's URL in the following manner (as of August 2006):
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN-VALUE-HERE
The former format was http://www.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:
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/020530902X
A shorter form of the URL for most products is:
    http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/ASIN-VALUE-HERE
So the URL for Elements of Style, 4th Edition would become:
    http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/020530902X "
This block of text in this article doesn't sound quite encyclopedic to me for it be featured here. Should this be transwikied over to Wikibooks? ~ Toastr 04:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikibooks 

message: Where an ASIN is not an ISBN, such as a CD (see Christopher Parkening) or older books (see Raymond Cattell (Books)), it usually starts with B.  It would be nice for this range of identifiers to be technically described on this article. John Vandenberg 00:52, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  non-ISBN ASINs 

message: My two-cents-worth: I'm agin it.  Regardless of its proprietary origin, ASIN is a useful way of identifying products uniquely, and it's useful to have a simple article on it without having to wade through a bunch of stuff on the company that readers may not be interested in. --Paul Magnussen 17:21, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Article with Amazon.com? 

message: Does anyone know Amazon's policy for calculating an ASIN based on the 13 digit ISBN format? At the moment you can calculate the 10 digit ISBN by taking off the 978 prefix and recalculating the check digit, this can then be used as the ASIN. However for ISBN-13 numbers starting with other prefixes there seems to be no easy way of calculating the ASIN apart from searching for the book on Amazon. —Ashleyvh (talk) 08:23, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  13 digit ISBN vs ASIN? 

message: I've removed the WP:LAW banner from this talk page. This is no more a law article than it is a numbers articles. Under the rationale given should we tag every book still under copyright as WP:LAW too since the words are proprietary (and for that matter anything owned by anyone)? Aboutmovies (talk) 11:51, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: WPLAW

message: The URL was recently "corrected." I have just reversed this. The URL is currently correct as given. You can verify this fir yourself, just by trying it out. For example, for the ISBN/ASIN 1597490415, the URL becomes:
http://amzn.com/dp/1597490415
...Which takes you to, "Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication," by Mark Burnett. The Grand Rascal (talk) 10:21, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent Edit Reversed!