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

Relevant Operations

Operations that can use this response group include:

Availability

All locales

Response Elements

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

Element Ancestry Description
AlternateVersion AlternateVersions Container for AlternateVersion information, including ASIN, Title, and Binding.
ASIN AlternateVersions/AlternateVersion A positive integer that uniquely idenfies an item for sale.
Binding AlternateVersions/AlternateVersion The format of the item, for example, Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, or Hardcover.
Title AlternateVersions/AlternateVersion The title of the item.

Parent Response Group

The following response groups are parent response groups of AlternateVersions.

Child Response Group

The following response groups are children response groups of AlternateVersions.

Sample REST Use Case

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

http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&
Operation=ItemSearch&
AWSAccessKeyId=[Access Key ID]&
AssociateTag=ws&
SearchIndex=Books&
Keywords=potter&MerchantId=All&
ResponseGroup=AlternateVersions&
Version=2007-01-17

Sample Response Snippet

The following response snippet shows the elements returned by AlternateVersions. 

<AlternateVersions>
  <AlternateVersion>
    <ASIN>030728364X</ASIN>
    <Title>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)</Title>
    <Binding>Audio Cassette</Binding>
  </AlternateVersion>
  <AlternateVersion>
    <ASIN>0307283658</ASIN>
    <Title>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)</Title>
    <Binding>Audio CD</Binding>
  </AlternateVersion>
  <AlternateVersion>
    <ASIN>0439785960</ASIN>
    <Title>
    Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, Book 6) (Harry Potter)
    </Title>
    <Binding>Paperback</Binding>
  </AlternateVersion>
  <AlternateVersion>
    <ASIN>0439786770</ASIN>
    <Title>
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) [LIBRARY EDITION]
    </Title>
    <Binding>Library Binding</Binding>
  </AlternateVersion>