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About Amazon Links
Some of my more eagle-eyed readers have noticed (and one has complained… grrr) that the links on my books list go to Amazon.
This is because I have been unable to find a job since finishing my Master’s and i’m trying to generate some income. This blog is free for you to read, and i’m very glad that you do. But a girl’s gotta eat and this is my way of trying to do that—and of course for this to be fruitful I need my readers’ support.
I link to Amazon because I have an affiliate account there, meaning that i get a tiny percentage of any purchases made via one of my links (although there are a bunch of conditions that go with that).
The reason for I have these affiliate accounts is that it’s a way for me to potentially make a tiny amount of money—which, since i haven’t been able to get any sort of job since finishing my MA, would be extremely useful—without taking charity from you or anything like that.
So, please, if you’re going to be buying something from Amazon, why not got via an affiliate link on my Books list?
Additional but totally secondary benefits of the amazon thing (i’m not going to pretend these were concerns of mine when i set up my affiliate account) are:
1) It’s a way to sliiiiightly stick it to amazon for totally monopolising sales of almost everything. In this economy i know we can’t always put “ethics” ahead of our own pockets to, for example, buy books in physical bookstores at a higher price than we can online—but buying something via an affiliate link does at least reduce the amount amazon makes. A teeny tiny bit.
2) I’m planning on using 50% of the $ i make to fund a book giveaway. In which one or some lucky readers will get to win some books from the list. Ooooh!
It doesn’t hurt or cost you to click an affiliate link and it doesn’t cost you anything to click ads or basically anything on the internet. And for Amazon it also saves you the time of typing in the details yourself. If you don’t like it, you obviously don’t have to click—and i’m certainly not forcing you to buy! So don’t give me grief about it, please, pretty please.
