[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by dwig

You should add "illustrator" and "cover artist" to the list of those who must have released their copyright, either willfully or by death 70 years ago.

Yes, thanks for the important addition.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Does the site take into account an Amazon link that might already have an affiliate link? What about arcadata's affiliate links threads? Will they get changed to be the MR affiliate code?

Generally yes, they get changed, but not in the areas where we currently allow clearly marked affiliate tags (i.e. signatures, arcadata's thread in the deal section).

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Re DRM, I'm reconfirming that it's alright to say things like 'obok' and 'the tools', and 'Apprentice Alf'. And to link to Nate's site wherein an Article discusses stripping Kobo DRM issues. (http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/0.../#.VH_Nu8nQW0A)

And to link to Alf's blog ....

Here is where the grey area begins. Alf's blog is exclusively dedicated to providing DRM removal tools, which is a totally different story than for example Nate's blog. In the case of doubt, it's better to be conservative and not to include a link.

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I usually use the format

http://amzn.com/{ASIN}

We do have code in place to automatically unshorten the amzn link when clicked upon, which would technically be required to add the tag. It's not optimized yet because it would query Amazon's servers for the full URL every time a user views a post containing such a link. That would slow down user experience, which nobody wants. We might make it work in the future by adding some caching functionality.