May, 10, 2001 archives
today's odd search request that led someone here. if they already knew the quote, what were they searching for? and how is it that one of my pages is google's first match out of all of the pages that contain that quote?
"content is not king" is fascinating. i love seeing where the money really goes.
an awesome observation from the "content is not king" paper: a participant in amazon's affiliate program can sometimes get more money from a book sale generated by a link from their website than the author does from royalties. (i've heard this before, in the context of authors being able to boost their take by being affiliates, but never really considered that the 15% affiliate commission could be more than the royalty being paid out.)