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