Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Where I Tell You How You Can Help Support This Author

By buying his work, of course.  But that's obvious.  No, instead I want to take a moment and talk about that Amazon banner right above.  And the Amazon Scroll-Motion Widgets on the side there. 

Now I know some of you think Amazon is evil.  Think it's a big bad corporation who wants to take over the world and destroy all small mom and pop places and force everyone to buy stuff from them.  Got it.  I disagree but hey, we can do that and still get along.

If you are like me, though, you probably use Amazon a lot.  Why?  Cuz they got shit I can't get anywhere else.  Like books.  Yeah, that's right.  I stopped buying from local bookstores for the most part years ago because they didn't have the books I was looking for.  Same thing with movies.  Best Buy?  Sometimes.  Amazon? All the time.


Isn't that great?  A reliable place you can actually get the stuff you want.
So, Amazon has been good to me as a consumer.  It's also been awesome to me as a writer.  You already know about e-books and their royalties and Kindle and self-pubbing and all that.  If you don't, Google it.  

Point is, Amazon has done well by me.  And the love doesn't stop there.  If you do their Associates program and put these little widgets on your page or a banner or link and someone clicks on it and goes to Amazon and buys something well, I get a cut.

I mean, you were going to buy something from Amazon anyway.  Doesn't even have to be my stuff.  But because you got to the site by clicking on a link from this here website you're on and reading this right now, and because you then went on to purchase anything from a heater to early European T & A films, well, I get a slice.

This is great for writers for obvious reasons.  We tend not to make much money in the first place.  It allows us to link to our work available on Amazon (See Scroll Motions on the left).  And it gives us a little extra income from those who want to see us keep the writing habit going.

So, if you want to show some love and you want to buy something on Amazon, remember to stop here first.  Click on that banner right there at the top.  You'll get your product.  I'll get a few cents.  Everyone's happy.

And if you want to show love by buying something I wrote, see again those Scroll Motions right there on the side.  E-books.  Regular books.  Come one, come all.

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