Overweening Generalist

Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2011

A Note on My Links to Amazon Books

When I started blogging, a writer friend told me I could maybe make some money selling books for Amazon, since books tend to be my Thang.

So I signed up with Amazon; they made it all very easy.

What I really liked, but never said, was that even if no one buys any of the books I linked to, the Amazon site tends to have a lot of pretty good information about the books, including, quite often, some perspicacious reviews. So I saw that as an added value for readers of my blog.

Now, the Governor of my state, California, has decided he wants a piece of online sales from Amazon from sales in California. Amazon doesn't like the idea, and has terminated my contract. One wonders how successful states will be in trying to get revenue from online sales? It remains to be seen.

Anwyay:

Should I continue to link to books at the site, or do you not tend to click on the links anyway?