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Curious that I didn't see this quoted... http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/donate/ http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/donate/ > Keeping it a clean,
by jonknee 14y ago
Curious that I didn't see this quoted...
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/donate/ http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/donate/
> Keeping it a clean, ad-free reading experience — which is important to me and, I hope, to you — means it’s subsidized by the generous support of readers like you: directly, through donations, and indirectly, whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on Brain Pickings, which sends me a small percentage of its price.
Update: it looks like that and the site's footer explanation of Amazon links were both added recently (they don't appear in the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20130116024042/http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/donate/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130116024042/http://www.brainpi... )
- ken_railey 14y agoProbably because she added that after the articles in question were written.
- guylhem 14y agoThat's more than fishy. I wonder if they will vanish in 6 months