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Amazon Book Linker v1.4
Amazon Book Linker v1.4
(3 customer ratings)
1140
Free
Uses the Amazon Product Advertising API to lookup and insert a fully customizable HTML link, based on a template, to a book in your post, with a reference to your own Amazon Associate Tag, so that you can make a sales commission out of a direct sale from it.

Release Notes:
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Amazon Book Linker v1.4 new features and fixed bugs (from v1.3) :

1. Rename the "Help" button in the "Modify Template..." window for "Show Macros...".
2. Add automatic version detecting upon startup.
3. Change the height of the main window so that it can fit on most Netbooks.
4. Add a few more book macros: {bookRating}, {bookPublicationDate}, {bookPublisher}, {bookNumberOfPages}, {bookISBN10} and {bookISBN13}.
5. Add support for loading and saving multiple user-defined templates.
6. Add user setting for default image size (in Settings window).
Details and Requirements
.NET Framework:.NET Framework 2.0Get the latest
Writer:WL Writer 1.0.x and aboveGet the latest
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ClassicalBookworm
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Love it
Just what I was looking for! (26/12/2009)
This is excellent. I love that you can format the link and image any way you like by just plugging in the macros where you want them. One thing that would make it even better is to allow multiple custom templates, for example one with just a text link, and another with text link and image, and one with just the image. I display a lot of book links in various formats on my blog. Right now I use the Text Template plugin and manually insert ASINs, which is a hassle. I have about 5 different templates going right now, and it would be great to have them all available in this plugin. I did notice one little bug: when I click View HTML and then click OK, the window doesn't close. I can close it by clicking Cancel or the X button, but the OK button doesn't do anything. It would be cool if there were a few other macros available—for instance publisher, publication date and ISBN-13. I like to post these at the top of my reviews. Well done, Brian! P.S. I just noticed that the plugin's dialog box doesn't fit on my netbook screen (which is 600 px high). I can't see or access the buttons at the bottom so I can't use it on my netbook. If you can shave off 75 pixels it should just fit.
Pfaef
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Love it
Love this Plugin (20/04/2009)
If you like to write book reviews this plugin is a must! It will pull book cover and title by simply adding entering book title or isbn. Allows you to modify the template so you can add additional information. Thansk