Instead of an Email...: On Advertising: Maria Popova - have you made $1M on affiliate ads while soliciting $500k in donations for your "ad-free" site? Then...

13:23 16th Feb 2013

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On Advertising: Maria Popova - have you made $1M on affiliate ads while soliciting $500k in donations for your "ad-free" site? Then...

on-advertising:

Maria Popova is a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, regular author for The Atlantic, and was named to the Fast Company 100 Most Creative in Business list. I let her know I was a regular reader of her site when I sent her an email a few months ago after she wrote an article about the dangers of…

Ah, it makes me think my library could be making money via Amazon ads — if I made all the book covers link to Amazon rather than our catalog (haha). But it is shameful when people make money on the sly…. Instead, she could have said - either donate OR buy books from Amazon to help support us. It’s the silence that is damning.

Brainpickings is a great site - but Maria Popova needs to tread carefully.
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  book covers link...sly…. Instead,...either donate OR
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