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Tag Name:	<CF_AMAZON>
Version:	2.0 (Released 8/17/1999)
Recent Changes:	8/17/99 v2.0 - CF_AMAZON now returns list price, product status (such as "special order" or "out of stock"), image URL (when available). It also returns data for one search result (previously it when a search resulted in only one product, the user was linked directly to that product). You can also search by ISBN now, or even multiple ISBN's. We also noticed that the "limit" attribute was broken. It never returned more than 25 results. It will now return up to 100 items in certain cases (top_books, top_music, etc..).
Author:	Rick Root (ric@arborsites.com)
Licensing Status:	Freeware (view license)
Purpose:	Amazon's affiliate program can help you make money on your web site. But unless you spend a lot of work creating the links, you're only going to get 5% of most purchases made from your web site because they're not direct links. In other words, a search box or a link to Amazon's home page is only going to get you 5%. The affiliate program becomes more valuable when you can link directly to products. There are over 400,000 products which will get you a 15% commission, but only if you link directly to those products. So I've created a "low-maintenance" way for you to get those direct links without having to spend a lot of time creating the HTML for those links. The <CF_AMAZON> custom tag pulls information in a variety of categories directly from Amazon's web site, and provides you with the information requested as a Query dataset, so you can output the results however you want. The data it retrieves is the ASIN, Title, Author (except for DVD's and video), List Price, Price, Image URL (when available), and Status.