From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 31 10:20:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09190 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09162; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:20:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02392; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:20:47 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA10750; Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:20:31 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980331192029.56079@iii.co.uk> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:20:29 +0100 To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Affilliate with Amazon or Barnes and Noble? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi folks, [cc'd to Jordan in his PR and Corporate Liason role] I've just been poking around the _Amazon_ and _Barnes and Noble_ websites. >From what I can tell, both of these companies are running 'affilliate' programs. In a nutshell, you include links to books that people can buy through them, and they pay you a percentage of the purchase price of all the books that are bought through your links. This seems like a good way to earn at least a litte money for the project via the web site, and also raise the profile of the books that should be on the shelf of every FreeBSD administrator. Initial links to both those companies' schemes are and (copied straight from my browser, you may need to trim some of the dynamic crud of the URL). Thoughts? N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message