My first Amazon API program

I now have a very simple program that queries the Amazon API for books on Ruby programming and displays the results as a list of titles linked to their product pages. The most interesting part wasn't the coding, which is pretty simple, but the incredible depth of Amazon's API. They make it possible to build a complete e-commerce site built on their engine. I now understand why Jeff Bezos was quoted on a financial program as saying that Amazon may eventually become a e-commerce systems provider instead of a retailer. You can learn a lot about a company's plans by studying the functionality they surface in their API. Even if I don't end up building a real product with anyone's API, I will get a better understanding of their strategy.