Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML

One thing to remember as you seek to try this out on your own is that Internet Explorer security settings do not allow you to make XmlHttpRequest calls from the local file system. Even though you are not using a server-side language, you still need to run the source code from a Web server like Apache’s HTTP Server. Uploading the files to a Web hosting account would work as well.
This tutorial is using the minified jQuery 1.2.6 core JavaScript file, which can be downloaded here from Google Code. No other plugins are necessary. Here is a screenshot of the widget in its final form:

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