Amazon have upgraded their Astore tool / service on both .com and .co.uk (I haven’t had a chance to look at .fr yet, but I will do when I get a chance).
The official announcement arrived a couple of days ago:
With this version of aStore you can now:
* Build and maintain multiple aStores under one Associate ID
* Feature up to 54 products in each category
* Create custom categories containing products from multiple Amazon categories
* Create multiple instances of individual Amazon categories
* Control the display order of the products on each page
* Specify products to feature on Category and Subcategory pages
* Populate products to categories using Listmania lists
I’m going to be playing with the system a bit over the next few days as it’s beginning to shape up quite nicely.
So far I like what I see, in that I can add multiple stores with custom content for each niche site / interest that I want them to reflect.
I’m also in communication with one of the Amazon team directly, so I’m going to try and build up a comprehensive list of features that I like and ones that I don’t like.
I’ve thrown together two stores very quickly, but they give some idea of what could be done:
One for this blog which uses one of the default templates with no additions.
Another one for the webmaster forum with the forum’s logo (yes I know it isn’t the write size or colour but I was just testing the system)
I’ll try to post a followup once I’ve explored it all a bit more
It’s also available for amazon.fr ….