I was so proud that in March and April, this site broke even with Amazon commissions and Google ads. So of course I had to go and screw everything up, right?
Even with my daily readership slowly rising, my commissions have dropped to zero. The reason? I link to Barnes and Noble on my posts now. Nobody's buying.
So either you all shy away from B&N or nobody's doing much shopping this month.
To play it safe, I'm returning to Amazon. That means a return of the ugly sales box, alas. They do have an option to post just the cover art, but their link html doesn't seem to work for me and I have to use up my own bandwidth, which is the problem I'd sought to avoid in the first place.
Wow, this technical stuff is tough, even with a techie husband. All I wanna do is review books. Sheesh.
Oh, and Happy Mother's Day all. The hubby has a post about the hoopla here.
Argh, tell me about it. The technical stuff makes me so crazy, and I have a techie husband too.
I link to Powells, which is pretty simple. I would probably make more linking to Amazon, but I disapprove of them on so many levels, I just can't do it.
Posted by: web | May 14, 2006 at 11:46 AM
Gosh, Web, I guess you're a real person. I deleted a comment yesterday that I thought was spam. I'm so embarrassed!
Yes, Amazon (like Google and MicroSoft) are part of a vast mind-control experiment run by humorless, hygiene-challenged geeks. Nonetheless, it remains the best way to connect all these great authors to their book-buying public, short of shuttling them to a bookstore myself.
Welcome to Book Buds. Sorry for the mistake. :-)
Posted by: Anne | May 14, 2006 at 03:40 PM