Net::Amazon
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I simply can not see any compelling uses for the API that Amazon provides. Sure, some people have made
some interesting hacks but nothing that gets past the gee-whiz stage. Now, I can search the Amazon database
from an application, but the kinds of information it returns don't do anything to excite me. Apparently,
I can also let people add stuff to a wedding registry -- which are like some kind of twisted institutional greed ritualized into normalcy, but that's an entirely other story --
using "web services" but closer inspection reveals that this just means HTML form. Go figure.
The whole thing seems like a rushed, half-assed job where someone tried to combine a months worth of discussions in
the "blogosphere" (SOAP vs. REST, XSLT services, am I hot or not style judging of opinion) into a single package.
And the docs suck rocks.