However I do think it's slightly disingenuous to brush off a comment about affiliate payments in such a flippant way, when monetisation seems to provide at least some motivation for writing the blog (http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-upd...).
The original poster suggested that one could simply put together a booklet of custom sayings and read that, to which mike-cardwell responded that I wouldn't receive the Amazon affiliate revenue in that case. This makes it sound like the culmination of all the work I put in over the last year is to be able to post this blog post and collect some affiliate revenue. I find this completely ludicrous; I'll be lucky to make $10 off this post. I'd make more money billing for a client in the time in took me to respond to this thread. I put affiliate links on everything I promote on my blog, but that doesn't mean that I live large sections of my life out differently so I can hopefully collect a few dollars down the road.
Fair enough - but I don't think the poster was insinuating you spent a year reading the book to be able to gain affiliate payments (especially since you read it back in 2007)
The insinuation was probably that you chose to write this post in order to advertise the book (as a monetisation strategy).
However I do think it's slightly disingenuous to brush off a comment about affiliate payments in such a flippant way, when monetisation seems to provide at least some motivation for writing the blog (http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-upd...).