[ramoz]

Random question - Did goodreads ever make money through Amazon's affiliate program? (Before Amazon acquired them). If so, how does the site not break affiliate partners terms of service? It could effectively list every single book product on it's site and slap an affilate link on there. The ref link exists now, but a unsure how that gets rolled into current amazon metrics/accounting.

[justinberding]

That's a great question. I can't say for sure that Goodreads was part of Amazon's affiliate program prior to them being acquired in 2013, but I don't see why they wouldn't have been.

Booqsi is specifically not part of Amazon's affiliate program and instead of focused on the local bookstores via bookshop.org, so I'm not an Amazon affiliate expert, but I would imagine that Amazon wouldn't have any issue with a site like this linking users to purchase books from them.

[mminer237]

Do the affiliate terms of service say anything about linking to too many things? I would think Amazon would be thrilled to have a popular site link to millions of their products.