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Why do you care whether he gets a commission on the sale of a Kindle? If you want to buy a Kindle, and he influenced you in your choice, shouldn't he get credit
by spicyj 17y ago
Why do you care whether he gets a commission on the sale of a Kindle? If you want to buy a Kindle, and he influenced you in your choice, shouldn't he get credit for that. Seems to me that everything seems okay, unless you're suggesting that he made up the story in order to get people to buy Kindles, which seems unlikely to me.
- staunch 17y agoI'm not saying I'm right to find it tacky/lame, but nothing requires that he made up the story to sell Kindles. It could be simply that he decided this article might get a lot of attention, and decided to try to capitalize on it.
- obrajesse 17y agostaunch, So, that's my blog post. The "Buy a Kindle!" links were very much a last-minute addition. My thought process was really more one of "It'd be nice to steer more cash away from this vendor who pissed me off." The "Oh. There is delicious irony in getting the $100 I was 'owed' by referring people away from B&N" thought came embarrassingly late. My intent in ranting about B&N's poor customer service was to shame them into fixing it or losing customers. By a strict interpretation of your words, yes, I totally realized that my blog post might get attention and decided to capitalize on it. I don't expect a whole lot, though. The number of Kindles people bought via links from my blog post puts the hourly rate for the time I spent on Savory and the other opensourcy Kindle hacking I did last year at about....what I'd earn working the drive-through line at Wendy's.
- daeken 17y agoThis is largely off-topic, but thank you for the work you've done. Hacking the Kindle is by no means glamorous or easy, and it's good to see someone doing it. Keep up the good work.