Received: from localhost ([::1]:38855 helo=stodi.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TvuJf-00061x-II; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:35:55 -0800 Received: from eastrmfepo101.cox.net ([68.230.241.213]:57394) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TvuJT-00061m-7C for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:35:53 -0800 Received: from eastrmimpo110 ([68.230.241.223]) by eastrmfepo101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20130117183537.FLZZ2891.eastrmfepo101.cox.net@eastrmimpo110> for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:35:37 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([98.169.148.216]) by eastrmimpo110 with cox id p6bc1k00V4gNKFm016bcc3; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:35:37 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.50F84479.003D,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=N5Wr5hBB c=1 sm=1 a=oMUrf2L0cPa+6Alu0knKiQ==:17 a=YsUzL_8ObRgA:10 a=xzaFcLBxI9oA:10 a=xmHE3fpoGJwA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=8YJikuA2AAAA:8 a=9D139QOQ9vwA:10 a=XXz0tORbAAAA:8 a=vggBfdFIAAAA:8 a=3FdcHnVQNzgJvzKep50A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=4tG3T-ZfWpYA:10 a=hkODgbchuuYA:10 a=dxBpO5_FDU0A:10 a=ZFSydV4GK7EsfrkZ:21 a=G87FV2o62nA59wpp:21 a=oMUrf2L0cPa+6Alu0knKiQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Message-ID: <50F84479.6010007@lojban.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:35:37 -0500 From: Bob LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: llg-board@lojban.org X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / Subject: [llg-board] Amazon Affiliate Program - should we consider it? X-BeenThere: llg-board@lojban.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: llg-board@lojban.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: llg-board-bounces@lojban.org I just read a little about this on an unrelated site http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2013/01/should-every-book-link-to-amazon.html The reference notes that some obscure web site that I never heard of gets an average of $300 a month income simply because of people who go to amazon.com from links on their pages, and from context these aren't advertising links but simply linking to amazon when a book is mentioned. It indicates that if someone buys CLL from our links, we get an additional 7% of the selling price than we are currently getting (an extra couple of bucks) as well as the same cut of any other stuff they buy on amazon at the same time they buy CLL. We may not even have to add any specific advertising to our site, though we probably would have to add some sort of code to any links to amazon in book references for CLL (and any other books referenced on our site that link to amazon - I imagine that there are a few spread around the wiki pages). I have never looked into this, and probably don't have the current-Internet-culture chops to evaluate it from the standpoint of our community interests. But we are primarily selling CLL through Amazon (and not through other vendors, and I have no idea if we should consider doing that, too). And thus we might be missing out on a couple hundred dollars of free money merely from the CLLs that are sold on amazon, given that close to 100 books were sold last year. I can easily imagine that we could pay for the cost of one LogFest each year with the proceeds, and not doing any advertising that we are not already doing by selling the book. Can someone else look into this and render their opinion. Robin - you may be most qualified, but feel free to pass it to someone else including a non-Board-member to research. -- Bob LeChevalier lojbab@lojban.org www.lojban.org President and Founder, The Logical Language Group, Inc. _______________________________________________ llg-board mailing list llg-board@lojban.org http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/llg-board