The income certainly would be nice, and as K P Moseley indicated, scholarly
journals do carry ads for books all the time. I'm inclined to support it
IF the ads were rather muted; I don't want flashy Amazon.com ads jumping
about the screen when I read JWSR.
>
> Recently, an interesting opportunity crossed our desk at JWSR. We
>learned of the Amazon.com Associate program, a potentially interesting
>enhancement to the JWSR web site. In exchange for putting links to buy
>specific books (such as the ones we review) or just a general link to
>Amazon's site, we receive a small percentage of sales that directly
>result.
>
> We could definitely use a little extra income to cover our
>expenses, but the main purpose of this post is to gauge people's opinions
>as to the appropriateness of this option. Is this suitable for a scholarly
>journal to be doing?
>
>Thanks for your input,
>Carlos Capellan
>JWSR Student Assistant
>
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