Marcia - 9:21 am on Feb 18, 2001 (gmt 0)

mousemoves, I'm a bookaholic, I stay clear of Amazon. I have never seen anything on their site about anything like that - when I'm there briefly to look something up, I leave ASAP. I have 3 bookcases overflowing, and right now I can think of 4 or 5 books that I "need desparately" :)

Actually, I was on the site this week for a minute, checking out a link from a web site, and did glance around to see if there was anything, and saw nothing.

If I can't see it, they haven't "got me." I've been a volunteer at a women's community, with over 2800 message boards and an active readers and writers community, for over two years, and you can't move your eyes without seeing something about the boards or chat. It's a site and a business built on community and they know how to do it.

Another thing Amazon didn't do. I haven't done anything with it, or put links up, but I joined the affiliate program about a year and a half ago. Where's the mail?

There should be a newletter sent out regularly - tips on how to set up the program and make it succeed - instead of having people flounder and come to my board, unrelated, asking what to do with it. Anything, any kind of communication would do. If they have anything going, why haven't I been informed? They got my permission when I signed up.

Shopping there is like banking at the automated teller - no people. Again, proving that corporations can't build community - people do it, and it's built on communication, and they don't do it.

If people don't know it's there, it doesn't exist. They've missed it.