Great idea! A few comments: 1) Is the PRC aware of this? They need to know this is happening, and may even need to approve it, to ensure that it's in line with our 501(c)3 status.
2) Can you add bookpool.com to the vendor choices? They almost always have the lowest prices, often by a substantial margin, than other online book retailers. (I can only recall one time that I found a book cheaper at Amazon than at BookPool.) 3) This is much wider than Struts Dev! ;-) -- Martin Cooper On 5/12/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's safe to say that users of ASF software buy their share of > computer books. The online retailers, like Amazon.com, offer > commission programs for people who link to their site. > > The Apache Software Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation funded > solely through donations from the community. To help offset the costs > of ASF infrastructure, we could make it possible for ASF supporters to > buy books about ASF project software through commission-program links. > > The commissions for such links is usually 5% or more. Given the vast > number of books ASF supporters purchase, the commissions from these > sales could become a respectable source of revenue. > > Setting up an online bookstore to benefit the ASF has been a > longstanding itch of mine, which I've finally gotten a chance to > scratch. A prototype bookstore is now available as a Confluence wiki. > You can check it out at: > > * http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/BOOKS/Home > > If anyone is interested in helping out with maintaining the site, > please let me know. I'd especially welcome ASF project committers > who'd like to help oversee the section about their project. > > If there was interest, we could also add pages for books recommended > by ASF committers. Here, we could list other related books and > off-topic items, like DVDs and CDs that we enjoy. There's an > unfinished prototype of a committer page here: > > * http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/BOOKS/husted > > If anyone would like to make any existing links commission-program > links, there are instructions for how to do that on the bookstore > Feedback page. > > * http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/BOOKS/Feedback > > There is also a general FAQ on the Feedback page. > > Of course, this is a 100% volunteer effort and 100% of all commissions > are donated directly to the Apache Software Foundation. > > Comments and suggestions are welcome. > > -Ted. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
