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Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by dazc on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:50AM (#26841888)
'...so you'll get lots of revenue for non-book things too.'

If you refer via a the books category and then someone buys from some other random category you get a much lower percentage. This has been a recent move and makes such tactics very unprofitable - for good reason too.

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Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by weird-eye-issue on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:27PM (#26846332)
It's not really a "tactic" it's just a side effect of people buying everything on Amazon. You say tactic like it is some slimey technique. You are referring people to Amazon so you get paid for it.
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Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by dazc on Sunday April 18, 2021 @06:40AM (#26851351)
I didn't mean to infer it was slimey, sorry if it sounded that way.
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