We tried Google Adsense, but when the word-of-the-day was rain, the ads-of-the-day were for rain gutters and umbrellas. When all we care about is writing—and, well, not rain gutters.
Enter Amazon.
I follow Roger Ebert on Twitter, who tweets Amazon links to various products relevant (usually) to what he's on about. He wrote an explanation for this on his Sun-Times blog, and it sounded like a good idea, so I went to Amazon and signed up for an Associates Account. A few clicks and I was in.
Rather than incessantly tweeting links, I decided to create an Amazon store. This allows us to offer word-uppers handy books on writing and screenwriting (yes, those are totally different), the Kindle for reading, even iPads and Macbooks for writing (yes, please). And, for good measure, music that we listen to (or wish we listened to).
Are we selling out? Totally. At least enough to pay for server fees and a limo driver.
The good news is that you can buy stuff you were probably gonna buy anyway for the same price you would pay anyway—while at the same time making a small (okay, really small) donation to oneword. It's like donating to you and us simultaneously.
