 <p>Hey, I know this is a bit old, but I've found the EditorialReview part of the response contains the product description. I guess the cravet that Tom talks about still applies, but at least its a way to get to the description without reverting to screen scraping (which is never a good thing!) :)</p> <p>See this page of the Amazon product API: <a href="http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/">http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/</a></p> <blockquote> <p>EditorialReview Response Group</p> <p>For each item in the response, the EditorialReview response group returns Amazon's review of the item, which, on the Detail page, is labeled the Product Description.</p> </blockquote> <p>No nasty screen scraping required! :)</p> <p>Andy. </p>