Promoting Books About Ubuntu

john levin john at technolalia.org
Wed Jul 26 18:19:09 UTC 2006


Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 12:10 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> On Jul 26, 2006, at 3:51 AM, john levin wrote:
>> I assume you mean <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBooks>.
>>
>>> There are links to amazon USA and DE; is this on an affiliate program 
>>> (some of the links certainly aren't, but others are longer)?
>> No. Some of the links contain someone's session ID, but there's no ref= 
>> component.
>>
>>> If not, shouldn't there be?
>>> ...
>> Good idea.
> 
> I can generate amazon affiliate links. 
> If you just want a text link, just send me urls you want to make into
> affiliate links and I'll send you back the modified version. All I need
> is the URL to the page in this case.
> 
> If you want a picture link (I don't know how this will work in the wiki)
> send me the ISBN.
> 
> I wonder if there's a way to macro this... that would be cool.

I'm in contact with Hande Bayraktar of Canonical about this. Matthew 
Nuzum, can you liase with her? I'll cc you in further correspondance.

John Levin





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