At the present time, no ISBN links on the wikipedia are generating any income for the Wikipedia. Perhaps in the future that should change, but we have to be very careful about such things, and in my experience, the amount of money from such links is so low that it isn't really that important... not important enough to damage our independent reputation.

Fred Bauder wrote:

On the page [[Native American]] one of the books in '''Further Reading''' has an external link which takes you to this page:

http://www.pricescan.com/books/bookDetail.asp?isbn=0838903533

(Only give a header and a blank page now but in the past has had a list of bookstores and prices.)

When you edit the page you don't see any code that would generate that link.

If I were to put in a link to find a book I would probably do one for an Addall search or an ABEbooks search since I find those work best.

http://www.addall.com generates income by being an affiliate of bookstores as pricescan probably does too.

http://dogbert.abebooks.com is a used book listing service.

So what's going on and what do we want to go on?

Fred Bauder

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From milkeggs@inMail.sk () Tue Jul 30 02:44:24 2002