I've got no problem with it. Just don't make it too obtrusive and I think it's a fine way to try to bring some income into our little corner of the Net. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:34:59 +0200 To: Project Gutenberg volunteer discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: [gutvol-d] Fundraising thru Amazon ???

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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