[Wikipedia-l] Re: [associates at amazon.com: Amazon.com Associatesprogram - your application approved]

[Andreas Hoerstemeier]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Just for the record, after nearly 24 hours with the link on the book
> sources page, sales and revenue to us are $0.00.  It's a bit early to
> tell, but I think it's fairly clear that this (linking for money) is
> going to be a complete nonissue anyway.
Well, that's not too much surprising, as Amazon only add the money when 
the products are shipped. So unless someone ordered a book yesterday 
which shipped immidiatly you cannot see anything yet - only in the 
traffic list you can see how many orders were created so far.