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Yep, that's a great question I kind of wanted to bring up in the post as well, but it was getting long.

Because it calls into question things about how much money Tim makes, which is sort of none of my business, but since he writes a book and blog about how you can be basically make more money more efficiently, it sort of becomes interesting to me.

Does he need the supplementary income from Amazon because he doesn't make enough from his books + lecturing + investing?

How much money is he making with this kind of thing?

And maybe it was sort of unintentional to post an affiliate link and his Wordpress installation just auto links those somehow?

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Amazon has this nice feature where you get commissions on everything the person buys on your click. If someone buys a copy of Rework and happens to pick up a new high-end DSLR at the same time, you just made a few hundred bucks.

My best guess is that Tim makes 35,000 dollars per speech, and a few hundred bucks per year from referral fees. The reason Tim blogs is to build his permission asset and then monetize it speaking, it's not like he's writing the posts because he wants an extra couple bucks on Amazon.

That's exactly my point. It seems like his time would be more productive spent somewhere else besides going to amazon, searching for the book, getting his affiliate code in t.... on and on