mapping amazon's digital infrastructure
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Mapping Amazon’s Digital Infrastructure
Simon RowberryUniversity of Stirling
sr56@stir.ac.uk @sprowberry
The problems with reverse engineering
An Object-OrientedPublishing Model
ASINsAmazon Standardised Identification Numbers
ISBN-10
ASINs are persistent, cross-site and deep
Although there is another higher level organising principle
Beyond the book
The Cost of Nabokov
4,144 books368 editions
Magnetic Pricing
Price difference
Frequency
£0.01 38£0.02 13£0.03 3£0.04 23£0.05 3
Crowdsourced cataloguing
Mapping Amazon’s Digital Infrastructure
Simon RowberryUniversity of Stirling
sr56@stir.ac.uk @sprowberry
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