RogerBW's Blog

I have removed Amazon links from the site.

I admit that this wasn't a hard choice; they never brought in very much. But the specific reason is that Amazon is now excluding erotica, and as far as I can tell (it's not explicitly stated) non-heterosexual romance books even if not erotica, from affiliate earnings. (They're still selling them, they're just not paying the people who linked to them.)

Here is a longer explanation of how the whole thing works.

I'm sure Amazon has a bland corporate excuse for this, probably something about "mature content" (and obviously gay romance is more "mature" than het romance). And non-het and erotica aren't a big part of what I write about here. But I don't want to support the system that makes a decision like that. And they always come for the "controversial" things first.

If you buy a book because of a review here, I invite you to send me some money but I'll never notice if you don't.