Amazon associates program (was FW: I am so totally controlled by

Dan Kohn (dan@teledesic.com)
Sat, 23 Aug 1997 14:58:41 -0700

Adam and Rohit, what would you think of setting up FoRK in the Amazon
Associates program. "FoRK" would get 5 to 15% of all book purchases by
members. We'd need to someone to set-up a Web page with a few FoRK
favorites, and then we would each modify the amazon.com URL in the
process of buying books in order to credit FoRK.

My guess is that the total purchase of amazon.com books by FoRKers is
quite high. I've spent $100 a month on books there for the last 2
years, which would have been about a $240 contribution to the "FoRK
fund."

I would suggest we use the money to buy alcohol at occasional get
togethers (like the recent one in SF), but we could just as easily give
it all to the Tim Byars fund.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/partners/associates/associates.h
tml/

- dan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	I Find Karma [SMTP:adam@milliways.cs.caltech.edu]
> Sent:	Saturday, August 23, 1997 1:15 AM
> To:	FoRK@pest.w3.org
> Subject:	Re: Books (was FW: I am so totally controlled by my
> environment...)
> 
> > It's at <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0060926910>.  No, I
> > don't get a commission.
> 
> You should get a commission.  Sold ME on this one.  In fact, Amazon,
> I'll take two.  Dobbin ordered something from Amazon during the UPS
> strike
> and it still took them only 2 days to deliver the goods.  Very
> impressive.
>