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Wednesday, February 7, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Amazon.com Launches Honor Payment System Based on Amazon.com's 1-Click shopping technology, the system allows fans of authors or websites to give as little as $1 with a click of the mouse. Websites can also sell access to online or downloadable content such as video, music or textual material including news, poetry, short stories, commentaries and literature. According to Amazon.com, any website can sign up for the service and begin collecting contributions in less than 15 minutes. ``People want to support the sites they love -- the Amazon Honor System makes it safe and easy,'' said Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. ``Now, any website can effortlessly collect money from appreciative users. Over time, we hope this will be even more successful than our Associates program, which now has over 600,000 participating Web sites.'' The Amazon Honor System is open to any website and does not charge any registration or set-up fees to participating websites. Amazon.com plans to make its money from the transactions. Websites using the service are charged 15% of the total payment per transaction plus $.15. Launch partners include a group of more than 50 websites, offering everything from humor and poetry to recipes and help with math. A list of the fifty launch partners is provided at the end of this article. ``It takes an Amazon.com -- with its trusted brand and millions of successful transactions -- to bring the benefits of 1-Click contributions to Web sites of all shapes and sizes,'' said Chank Diesel, president and CEO of Chank.com. ``With the Amazon Honor System, sites like mine have the ability to continue providing innovative and creative content to our fans and customers.'' When visiting a website that participates in the Amazon Honor System, visitors are greeted with a paybox featuring a ``Click to pay'' or ``Click to give'' button. Although, the paybox recognizes Amazon.com customers, the company claims that no information relating to the customer is provided to any participating site. Amazon.com does not charge any additional fees to the person who is making the payment. Customers using the paybox can take advantage of a full and unconditional money-back guarantee up to 30 days after payment by using Amazon.com's Unpay feature, which provides no-questions-asked refunds. Amazon Honor System Participating Websites at Launch "It's Just Another Baby" -- pregnancy journal by Chris Rywalt AdCritic.com -- all ads, all the time Adventure Divas -- adventure travel for modern-day heroines AllFree.com -- a guide to free stuff AllMath.com -- accessible math knowledge AllWords.com -- quotes, dictionaries, word games and more Apple Corps -- an online vegetarian toy Bartleby.com -- online literary reference materials Bbspot -- a source for tech humor BedandBreakfast.com -- information about bed-and-breakfasts and inns Chank.com -- downloadable fonts Cranky Critic -- brutally honest film reviews Doug Ritter's Equipped to Survive -- survival gear and techniques emagazine.com -- a service of the E/Environmental Magazine eMule.com -- poetry archives Evote.com -- keeping score in the game of politics FunnyMail.com -- jokes, fun and humor Guitar.net -- all things guitar HearingVoices.com -- audio museum of radio programs HeroicStories -- true stories of everyday real people Icebox -- original animated entertainment programming Indigenous -- a sampling of blues from a band of Sioux siblings Internet Movie Database -- the definitive movie site Jakob Nielsen's UseIt.com website -- biweekly column on Web usability JibJab.com -- irreverent animation KidSource -- education and health care information for parents KillFrog.com -- animation, comics and games Loggia.com -- exploring the arts and humanities Modern Humorist -- fresh, new humor Museum of Bad Art -- a celebration of bad art Mythography.com -- exploring Greek, Roman and Celtic myth and art Nerdworld -- the definitive source for nerdy culture Open Letters -- writing in the form of correspondence OuterDark Publications -- writing from Spleen Quarterly magazine Overlawyered.com -- chronicling the high cost of our legal system Ragged Edge magazine -- covering the disability experience in the U.S. S.S.W.S. -- Short Story Writers Showcase Satire Wire -- new satire for the new economy SETI Institute Online -- the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence The Banner Ad Museum -- the best banner ads on the Web The Blue Moon Review -- original literary work online The Gaming Intelligence Agency -- gaming news and insights The Internet Tourbus -- explaining the Internet in plain English The Museum of Unnatural Mystery -- a slightly bizarre, cyberspace science museum for all ages The Wine Lovers' Page -- independent wine appreciation site TheForce.net -- comprehensive Star Wars site TheWax.com -- Webzine of varied content and commentary This Is True -- bizarre, true stories from the papers TuleVision.com -- post-contemporary art and entertainment headquarters TVparty.com -- a tribute to vintage television Peabody Award-winning -- radio series produced by NPR Victor Navone's 2-D and 3-D Art -- animator of Blit Wizbok WhatsGoingOn.com -- resource for festivals, events and destinations YumYum.com -- recipe site for everyday cooks Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. 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