My newest evil plan to conquer the universe involves embedding a link to buy my book in the WordPress Plugins that I write. Writing WordPress plugins is a kind of hobby of mine. These plugins get several hundred downloads per day, and that means several hundred eyes viewing the nag message, and every once in a while someone is actually buying the book.

I didn’t use just a link, but I used an Amazon affiliate link. Not only do I make $2.49 when someone buys a book, but I get and extra 36¢ from the affiliate link. This is an increase of 14% in revenues on a book sale. I consider this to be damn clever.

I have written a couple of dozen of these WordPress plugins. I am going to spend the next few weeks rewriting all of them so that people will upgrade and see the book ad.