Finding book covers by ISBN

This will be a somewhat rare topic. I do not plan to blog about my blogging. But I was trying to find a way to link books to proper book stores when I have reviewed them. I think I succeeded now. Go have a look at my Effective XML Book review to see how this particular blog-entry got images that links directly to the two on-line book stores I’m using.

During the research for this cool feature I had to use some time trying to figure out if there’s a way to get the book cover image based on the ISBN identifier. And yes, there is!

I found this cool page about abusing Amazon images, the author has really examined all the possibilities there is to use Amazons full featured image generator. For example check out the Gallery Of Cool Abused Amazon Images.