Received: from localhost ([::1]:32798 helo=stodi.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF6z-0002Pp-IY; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:02:21 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UCF6x-0002Pk-Nt for llg-board@lojban.org; Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:02:19 -0800 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:02:19 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Message-ID: <20130303200219.GB28094@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <50F84479.6010007@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50F84479.6010007@lojban.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [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-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: llg-board-bounces@lojban.org Yeah, you shouldn't expect me to do anything involving research in the forseeable future. -Robin On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:35:37PM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > 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 > -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. .i ko na cpedu lo nu stidi vau loi jbopre .i danfu lu na go'i li'u .e lu go'i li'u .i ji'a go'i lu na'e go'i li'u .e lu go'i na'i li'u .e lu no'e go'i li'u .e lu to'e go'i li'u .e lu lo mamta be do cu sofybakni li'u _______________________________________________ llg-board mailing list llg-board@lojban.org http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/llg-board