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Actually, I think the fact that the referral is payable after any purchase is a red herring. The review author is incentivised by their Amazon Affiliate status
by h2s 14y ago
Actually, I think the fact that the referral is payable after any purchase is a red herring. The review author is incentivised by their Amazon Affiliate status to choose words that will make me click on their link and get that money-making tracking cookie into my browser. Criticism of the book would not be conducive to that goal.
I think this blog is an egregious blurring of the line between content and advertising. I urge you to go and look at its archive of posts. Every post somehow contrives to include at least one Amazon referral link. Svbtle is a business looking for a long-term business model, and I sincerely hope this isn't it.
- batgaijin 14y agoBut I don't understand... how does that idea apply to a higher-standard blog hosted on Svbtle?
- lowboy 14y agoOut of the half-dozen or so Svbtle network articles I end up reading in a week, this is the only one I've noticed with a referral link to Amazon, let alone the repeated history of them like this author has. I think if anything it's this one author, not Svbtle as a whole.