Vox Tip: Vox and Amazon around the world!

Oct 18, 2006 at 11:08 AM
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There's a great new feature for you Amazon fans -- you're no longer limited to one Amazon site when searching for books, videos or audio. Now you can utilize Amazon US, Amazon , Amazon France, and Amazon to help fill your Vox library.

Whether you're writing a post in Compose, or entering in your whole bookshelf from the Organize page, you'll now see a dropdown box with the four Amazon sources. Select the desired Amazon location, enter your keywords, and click Search. It's as easy as that!

Amazon locations

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Using Amazon is a great way to add to your Vox Library, whether you're interested in books, audio, videos, or even all three. Adding an item from Amazon will show a variety of information about it, including the cover image if available, which makes your blog as colorful and happy as you are. Enhancing your Library is all about showing your neighborhood or the Vox world what you like: what you've got on your nightstand, what you've been watching on DVD, or what's in your CD player.

You can utilize these new Amazon locations no matter where you live. Maybe you want to blog about an import CD from another country, or about original series DVDs from the BBC. Or to just show people something good you've found in another country that you'd love to get your hands on. You might also find that these Amazon resources are great for finding alternate covers for books!

We hope you take the time to explore the options for books, audio, and videos, and enjoy these new Amazon locations along the way. You can always find out more info about using Amazon or the library in general in our Knowledge Base under our Books, Audio, and Videos sections.

--Vox Help team

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now all there needs to be is a way to add posts to collections, and i'll be SET! keep up the constant updates. i look forward to them like opening presents on christmas day, but this time going to Vox is like going to the living room and finding everything you asked for around the tree!

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The Vox improvements are great so far. I just wish there was more integration with other sites like Last.fm and del.icio.us. Also an API would be even better, allowing advanced users to set up their own templates and mix their own software, but still be linked into Vox. I think such an API would draw many users to Vox from other CMS software like MT and TXP.

No Amazon Canada? amazon.ca please.

Will it be possible to add a new Amazon search option for "video games" ? Some games can be added to collections as books, because they also have strategy booklets which come up on Amazon under "books", but this is not quite the same...

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an excellent addition - thanks. but still no way to add classical recordings from amazon? :-(

i agree with akatsuki too - an API could lead to awesome stuff... certainly did with flickr.

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yes! been waiting for something like this for ages!

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Yay!

Nice changes... very convenient, Vox. ^__^

Please add video games to the Amazon integration. Manually downloading the image from Amazon and uploading it as a photo is a decent workaround but you lose the linkage to Amazon.

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A belated -- but still very much deserved -- THANK YOU for this addition. US Amazon's catalogue seemed pretty spotty when it came to finding what I wanted to talk about, so this is a huge help! Thanks so much for adding it!

I also have to say that I would love to see the addition of video games (as Raf suggested), but this most recent change is still very much appreciated. :)