The method that you suggest is what Newsscan does at the end of their Honorary Subscriber segment. The only problem I have with it is sending people to Amazon at all, when they should be getting out of their houses and keeping local bookstores afloat. Granted, it's easier and cheaper (and how many of us live in the internet age now), but still gives me that feeling akin to shopping at WalMart. Social policy aside, it's a great way to get some of the money Amazon is giving away. Cheers, Maitri --- Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
Warning: potential heresy ahead!
Seeing that many `independent' PG websites are trying to make money using our books and our catalog data, basically mixing search results
from PG and Amazon Ads, eg.
http://www.abacci.com/books/ http://textual.net/access.gutenberg
why not do some fundraising thru Amazon ourselves?
Basically, we set up a page and tell our visitors:
If you ever feel the need to buy a book at Amazon don't go there directly but always thru the PG site. Thus Amazon will pass a small percentage of the revenue back to PG. This way you can donate to PG without spending anything and virtually without any trouble. Just delete your old Amazon bookmark and bookmark this page instead.
More details at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=3435371
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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