Don't get too excited about that idea, if Stackoverflow's experience is anything to rely on: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising-exper

Don't get too excited about that idea, if Stackoverflow's experience is anything to rely on: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising-experiment/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/11/our-amazon-advertising... However, your experiences might be a bit difference since people going to watch screencasts are more likely to be looking for a focused instruction than people going to Stackoverflow, so maybe these people would buy books. It's worth a try, but I wouldn't invest a lot of effort in it. They also mention the Adsense problem on technical sites that you refer to elsewhere in this post.