JWSR Proposal

Thu, 3 Dec 1998 17:38:17 -0500
Susan Manning (esm@jhu.edu)

Dear WSN,

Thanks for sharing your reactions, favorable and unfavorable, to the
proposal that we link JWSR to Amazon.com in exchange for a percentage of
resulting book sales. We decided against the idea, for two reasons:

First, we don't want to compromise -- or appear to compromise -- our
editorial integrity by profiting from the sale of books we review.

Second, the support of those JWSR readers (and WSN subscribers) who oppose
such a commercial relationship is more important to us than the income we
would receive from Amazon.com.

Susan Manning
Assistant Editor, JWSR