May 19, 2004
This site is free to all users. And while a lot of people think that the internet should be entirely free, there are costs associated with it: there's bandwidth, there're servers to buy and maintain, there's electricity. Truly free sites are supported by university/Government organizations or by advertising.
Books-On-Line is not university/Government supported, nor does it accept advertising. I've paid the bills myself as a hobby.
Now that I'm retiring, I'd like to get at least enough out of this to cover its direct expenses.
One thing I've done is come up with some programming that will automatically go to Amazon to get their listings of new books. I'm going to list them in the daily newsletter and at the bottom of the book display page. To my knowledge, no one else pulls these new titles off the web and displays them in a simple format. So this is a new service that I hope you like
If you click on a title, it will take you to Amazon.com. If you order from the first page you get at Amazon we get three times the commission than if you order from subsequent pages.
Finally, if you are simply going to Amazon for something else, like buying a new computer or camera or whatever, if you go to amazon from our link we get a commission. There's a link on the page up above, where it says Printed Books In Association with Amazon.com If you use this whenever you go to Amazon, we'll get a small commission and you will pay no more.
Good Reading!
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