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Analysis of Top 100 .NET BooksAn Illustration of the Use of Amazon.com’s Web Services for Business Intelligence
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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.
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Overview of Top 100 .NET Books
Other 9
O'Reilly & Associates 5Que 5
APress 6
Addison Wesley Professional 8
Sams 9
Microsoft Press 25
Wrox Press Inc 33
ADO 9
C# 9
Exam 9
Special Topics 12
Visual Basic 17
Programming 17
ASP 27
Publisher Topic0
20
40
60
80
100%
Number of books in Top 100
Two publishers—Wrox and Microsoft dominate books. While ASP is the most popular topic, .NET topics covered are evenly mixed.
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Sales and Price of .NET Books by Topic
Exam ADO ASP Visual Basic SpecialTopics
Programming C#
2,557
6,561 6,8227,314
8,164
9,373
10,743
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
Average Sales Rank
0
20
40
60
$80
Average Price
Exam preparation are also the best sellers and the highest priced.
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Sales and Price of .NET Books by Publisher
Que MicrosoftPress
APress WroxPress Inc
AddisonWesley
Professional
O'Reilly &Associates
Sams
4,029
5,994
7,372 7,455 7,753
8,647 8,721
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
Average Sales Rank
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60
$80
Average Price
Que’s books are the best sellers. Microsoft’s are the highest priced.
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The Publishers Focus on Different Topics
OtherAddison Wesley
Microsoft
O'Reilly
Sams
Wrox
Other
SamsAddison Wesley
APress
Microsoft
Wrox
OtherSams
AddisonWesley
O'Reilly
Wrox
Microsoft
Other
Sams
Microsoft
APress
AddisonWesley
Wrox
AddisonWesley
APress
O'Reilly
Wrox
Microsoft
Sams
Other
APress
Que
Microsoft
Wrox
Que
Microsoft
ASP Visual Basic Programming SpecialTopics
ADO C# Exam
27 17 17 12 9 9 9
0
20
40
60
80
100%
There are opportunities for Microsoft Press in many topics, including ASP. Wrox has a significant opportunity in the strong selling exam topic.