i support your decision in full (although i didn't throw my opinion into
the public bowl).
best regards,
thomas schott
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Susan Manning wrote:
> 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
>
>