The more alert reader may have spotted that my last couple of book reviews have now become adorned with tasteful Amazon ads.
\nI should explain.
\nObviously this site isn’t quite one to put The London Review of Books to shame just yet, but I do like to read books (and to be honest, I like to buy them even more). A while back when playing with plugins for MT (the system that this site runs on), I a became an Amazon associate. Riches awaited me.
\nThousands of readers would buy books off the back of my recommendations. Amazon would do well because I link to them by default, and I’d reap the dividends.
\nExcept it didn’t quite work like that. I was pretty poor in my linking policy, and most of the time, I just put a straight link into the text.
\nAnyway, I didn’t give it a second thought until a Q1 summary of my earnings dropped into my inbox, and I noticed that I’d earned some money.
\n£0.13
\nThat is, some revenue from the sale of a single book. And it’s not even one that I’ve read or linked to, so God knows how that happened.
\nSo this is my subtle attempt to see what happens if I pursue a proper linking policy on this site. And it does make the site a little more colourful with nice cover images. Who knows, I may eventually be able to buy a book with the proceeds? But let’s not run before we can walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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