Re: First version of GNOME amazon store online

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

Very cool, Jaap. I like it. (And it looks much less cluttered than the regular Amazon store!)

Another thought for a category would be computers with GNOME preinstalled like the Asus Eee PC, the HP mini, IBM thinkpad, ... (I got these from an Amazon search for Linux laptop.)

Stormy

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:

Hi,

I've got a first version of the amazon store online. I'd like to have
some feedback and consensus where to go from here.

The shop is online at
http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/

If you are using Firefox you see a highlight on the search box.
Clicking on it enables you to add the "Amazon.com GNOME" search
engine. It's just like the normal search engine as shipped with
Firefox only the affiliate is set such that the GNOME foundation gets
a percentage of the subsequent sale.

Basically the idea is to stimulate GNOME lovers to buy their stuff at
the GNOME amazon store and/or use the "Amazon.com GNOME" search
plugin. Does anybody know if the fees received for the plugin are the
same as for a shop. I can't find anything about it on the amazon site.
Seems to be a fixed percentage per product.

I've also added the other shop outside the US
http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/ca
http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/de
http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/fr
http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/jp
http://www.gnome.org/friends/amazon/uk

These pages don't contain a  shop yet (I prefer to have some feedback
first), but they contain the search engine already.

A note. I can't do much about how the shop looks. I'm just embedding
http://astore.amazon.com/gnomestore-20 in a iframe. Amazon just allows
me to play with some colors, fonts and which categories I want to add

Things I'm still planning on doing
1) Switching between the shops by putting links to the other shops on
each of the shop pages
2) Add a link to the firefox extension I talked about earlier. I
already submitted it to addons.mozilla.org
3) Add a link on which you can click to install the searchplugin

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks

Jaap
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