1. Analysis of Top 100.NET Books An Illustration of the Use of Amazon.com’s Web Services for Business Intelligence

2. 2 Introduction This is an analysis of the best selling books in a hot category— Microsoft’s new.NET framework The data was taken obtained using Amazon.com’s web service using the following process: -build a simple Excel Visual Basic for Applications to find all books with a certain search string in their title  the program returns the list of books, their price, sales rank, availability and publisher -retrieve all.NET books as of 3/27/03 -develop a categorization scheme for the books based on their titles  general programming, ASP, ADO, Visual Basic, C#, special topics (e.g., remoting or web services) -analyze the data using PivotTables -produce PowerPoint presentation using Mekko Graphics The presentation follows.

3. 3 Overview of Top 100.NET Books Two publishers—Wrox and Microsoft dominate books. While ASP is the most popular topic,.NET topics covered are evenly mixed.

4. 4 Sales and Price of.NET Books by Topic Exam preparation are also the best sellers and the highest priced.

5. 5 Sales and Price of.NET Books by Publisher Que’s books are the best sellers. Microsoft’s are the highest priced.

6. 6 The Publishers Focus on Different Topics There are opportunities for Microsoft Press in many topics, including ASP. Wrox has a significant opportunity in the strong selling exam topic.