Buy Yourself Some Nice Books

You need to read more. You need to read a lot more. You need to read every damn book ever printed, right Bucky? Okay, so slack off and narrow that list down to, say, the thousand best books ever written. It’ll only cost you $7,989.50 (plus shipping).

This post is an experiment. I’ve recently been accepted as an Amazon Associate, meaning that if I link stuff here that people actually end up buying, I get a small percentage, and I’m posting to see if the links work properly. And why shouldn’t I test it with the most expensive set of books in the entire Amazon catalog? Hey, I might get lucky!

My aim with this blog is to learn how the Internet works, including online marketing. Eventually I’ll be doing some honest-to-gawd product reviews, but for now the main point is not that I manage to sell something, but to learn how online marketing gets done. So thank you for your indulgence as I give myself this marketing lesson today.

If you were to click the link below and do thing you know, deep down, that you really, really want to do, by my calculation I would make $319.58. I would very much like to have $319.58. In fact, maybe you should buy two sets, so that, I dunno, you could lend some of the books out to friends, and in that case I’d make $639.16. So why aren’t you getting out your credit cards and ordering, you buncha pikers? These pixels are costing me money! I neeeEeeEEEeeeeed this! Buy ten sets! ARRRIIIHARRRGGGHHH!!!

Not that the great classics of Western Civilization aren’t worth spending some time with. And at least one Amazon reviewer apparently actually bought the set. Quoting a reader review from the Amazon website:

This is an orgy for a book-lover. I have had a wonderful time from the moment I placed the order. They arrived in 25 boxes shrink-wrapped on a wooden pallet, over 750 lbs. of books. It took about twelve hours to unpack them, check them off the packing list (one for each box), and then check them off the list we downloaded from Amazon.com. They take up about 77 linear feet. 

Turns out I’ve actually read some of these. And there’s much, much more to read about it on the Amazon review pages (I’m an Amazon addict. I especially like reading one-star customer reviews. Indignation is a minor art.).

So check it out. And don’t feel obligated to buy it or anything. But check it out, and then buy it:

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