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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
You need to at least once programmatically "follow" the link-shortened URL in order to discover its destination, as it doesn't necessarily contain any revealing information it its url (such as the ASIN, as you suggested). It's not too difficult, I just haven't had the time to write a caching system yet that would follow the URL and cache the unshortened version for quick future lookups.
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I figured no harm no foul.
An extra affiliate link when going to something like
http://amzn.com/manageyourkindle will, at worst, persist onto linked product pages.
But I can hear that as manager of a website you don't want to clutter up extra pages.
What does the current code do to distinguish product pages? I think the asin links are semantically recognizable the same (more or less) way, and unless you check for dead links in the current code (???) that shouldn't be a problem.
I wouldn't like to think that MobileRead has to ping Amazon if it doesn't have to, and I think it could be done without.
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There isn't yet. It could be easily added, though I am not sure where exactly. In the top blue nav bar perhaps?
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"Find ebooks on Amazon" searchbox under the MR one.
Although to be fair maybe we should have other retailers as well.