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It's one thing to hyperlink words to affiliate links in their text, but it's completely different to force all their readers to read over "Buy it now" while the

• jessriedel 12y ago
  > Also, how would you feel as a journalist if the investigative piece you'd spent the last three weeks on was ultimately riddled with "buy it now"s? Note that this is in the Style section, and they may draw a line between "serious" reporting and entertainment reporting for the purposes of in-line ads.
  • mkal_tsr 12y ago
    > they may draw a line between "serious" reporting and entertainment reporting for the purposes of in-line ads For now...
• panarky 12y ago
  I'd like to believe that buy-it-now links are added independently from the editorial process. It's an easy rationalization to start editing articles to make them more commerce-friendly, and it's a great way to wreck quality journalism.
• mooism2 12y ago
  It reminds me of websites that insert live stock quotes into their stories. - generally the information / buy it now link isn't of interest to readers - more useful generally would be a link to an internal encyclopaedia page: give the reader more information about the company/book, and include stock quotes / buy it now links on that page - if it's truly useful enough to include inline in the article, the journalist will put it there manually - a middle ground would be to pull stock quotes / buy it now links out of the main text into the margin