AlternateVersions Response Group

The AlternateVersions response group returns all of the available media formats for a book title. Sample formats include Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, and Hardcover. This response group works only with the Books and ForeignBooks product categories, that is, for ItemSearch and ItemLookup, the search index must be Books or, in non-US locales, ForeignBooks, and, for ItemLookup, the specified item must be a book or foreign book.

The following list shows the complete set of formats that AlternateVersions can return.

  • 3.5" disk

  • Accessory

  • Audio CD

  • Audio Download

  • Audio Reel Tape

  • Bargain Book

  • Bath Book

  • Board book

  • Calendar

  • Card Book

  • Cards

  • Cassette audio

  • CD-ROM

  • Comic

  • Diary

  • Digital

  • Diskette

  • DVD Audio

  • DVD-ROM

  • Film

  • Foam Book

  • Game

  • Gift

  • Hardcover

  • Hardcover Comic

  • Journal

  • Laser Disc

  • Leather Bound

  • Library Binding

  • Loose Leaf

  • Map

  • Mass Market Paperback

  • Microfiche

  • Mini-Disc

  • Misc.

  • Misc. Supplies

  • MP3 CD

  • Paperback

  • Perfect

  • Personal Computers

  • Plastic Comb

  • Pop-Up

  • Poster

  • Rag Book

  • Ring-bound

  • Roughcut

  • School & Library Binding

  • Sheet music

  • Slide

  • Software

  • Spiral-bound

  • Stationery

  • Textbook Binding

  • Turtleback

  • Unbound

  • Unknown Binding

  • Wall Chart

  • Workbook

Operations that can use this response group include:

The following table describes and shows the parentage of the elements returned by AlternateVersions. In the Ancestry column, the elements on the left side of a slash mark are the parents of the elements on the right side of the slash mark.

AlternateVersions also returns the elements that all response groups return, which described in Elements Common to All Response Groups.

The following response groups are parent response groups of AlternateVersions.

The following response groups are children response groups of AlternateVersions.

The following request was used to illustrate the XML response elements returned by AlternateVersions.

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
Operation=ItemSearch&
AWSAccessKeyId=[AWS Access Key ID]&
AssociateTag=ws&
SearchIndex=Books&
Keywords=potter&MerchantId=All&
ResponseGroup=AlternateVersions&
Version=2008-04-07