Amazon Standard Identification Number
Sign in to saveAlso known as ASIN, Amazon Standard Item Number, Amazon ID, Amazon.com ID, Amazon Music release ID, Amazon Music album ID
10-character alphanumeric unique identifier
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stock keeping unit
- Subclass of
- stock keeping unit
- Official name
- Amazon Standard Item Number
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- issued by
- Amazon
- has characteristic
- alphanumeric
- short name
- ASIN (identifier)
- identifies
- product
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Encyclopedic overview
An Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) is a 10-character alphanumeric unique identifier assigned by Amazon.com and its partners for product identification within the Amazon organization. They were designed in 1996 by Rebecca Allen, an Amazon software engineer, when it became clear that Amazon was going to sell products other than just books. The 10-character format of the ASIN was adopted so that Amazon databases and software, which were designed to expect a 10-character International Standard Book Number (ISBN) field, would not have to be changed to accommodate the new identification format.
Usage and structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amazon Standard Identification Number” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.