Amazon Product Advertising API dying?

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16 years ago

I was going to write a webapp based on the Amazon Product Advertising API. The documentation and code examples seem quite poor and not very current. Searching the Amazon forums, I found this discussion: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=51239&tstart=15

So what do you think - is it worth learning the Amazon Advertising API? Do you think it is going away? What alternatives would you use? I looked at the Ebay API but they say basically they will decide how often you can call the API, and if you use it too often, they will either turn off your access, or charge you. Amazon's 1 call per second is at least a known value.