Subscription site & Amazon AWS Development

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Joined: Oct 2004

Hi everyone,
I have no programming skill/basic html and I have 2 question for 2 sites i have:

1. Amazon AWS bookshop site: anyone has experience/build one and how much does it cost to develop one? I may be interested to have one developed. Time to develop?

2. Download site subscriptions: I'd like to start charging access/membership for another site I have. Currently monthly bandwidth at about 50GB and I can't keep it free anymore so I thought of make people pay for their own downloads/year. However, can you limit bandwidth/downloads per member? say 1GB per member/month - or x files/month? What payment options available? i have 2co.com account on another site/domain - can this be used for payment? Time to develop?

Thanks in advance!

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He has: 34 posts

Joined: Jun 2005

Hi,

I have several amazon AWS sites that i built. the URLs are in my signature. if your interested in an Amazon AWS for books check my Book site out i can make something similar if you need one.

He has: 9 posts

Joined: Sep 2004

How successful have you been with your AWS sites?

I have tried using AWS on several sites as a way of showing book content that matches the site content. I have succeeded in getting it to work correctly but had no success with selling. In fact I have made more by the standard linking methods that Amazon provide.

The ROI has been very poor in terms of time spent so how's it been for you? Your sites look like they have been a heavy investment in time so has it paid off?

They have: 15 posts

Joined: Sep 2005

AWS sites are not very succesful because google is aware of all amazon content, and consider new such sites just duplicates

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Joined: Jul 2005

There are a lot of free aws scripts. You can try this amazon product feed : http://www.mrrat.com/aws/

Google has dumped a half of duplicated amazon content. But you can expect traffic from yahoo and msn.

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