March 13, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:Notes and Asides Although this
Notes and Asides
Although this is a labor of love, I'm not above trying to make a fast buck where I can. (My student loan officer is hungry). So here's the deal: from now on, when I permalink a book from Amazon, I get a small cut if you click through and buy it right then (not if you stick it in your shopping cart and pay for it later). This is not a plea to buy books you wouldn't otherwise buy, or accelerate your purchases or anything to make me money; I love you all just for coming to the site and listening to me rant. It's just full disclosure so that you know that if you happen to click through off one of my links and buy, I'll get a little money. This does not mean that I'm about to go hog wild with book links; it's just that I do link books fairly often, either because I'm reading them or they're relevant to something I'm discussing, and a couple of readers who noticed this said "why not get a cut?"It does, however, coincide with something I started doing at the beginning, and then stopped, but am now going to resurrect: a "What I'm Reading" feature that gives you the Meggish perspective on whatever I happen to be putting in my brain. Reviews will be short, non-polemical, and (hopefully), amusing. This feature will continue regardless of association with Amazon.
Here's the thing though: this website is not about my making money, so if any of you are mortally offended (or even mildly put off) by the practice, drop me a line. If I hear from enough people, I'll stop, and put a hold on the plans for the Megan McArdle Signature Coffee Cup and T-Shirt line from CafePress. I'll halt talks for the Megan McArdle Memorial Little League Field in Central Park. I'll take my name off my building. I'll stop renting myself out by the hour to people who want to hear a good 500-word refutation of the Labor Theory of Surplus Value. I'll. . . I'll do anything, for you, dear, anything, cause you mean everything to meeeee. . .
Thank you for listening. We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Posted by Jane Galt at March 13, 2002 09:33 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links