Nobody in China can read my blog. This is an outrage; I figure it's costing me millions of dollars (...see my calculations below).
Background
Every time anyone clicks through to Amazon from this website and buys a book I've recommended, Amazon pays me twenty-five cents or so. However, so far this year not many people have come to realize what a great deal that is for them, because the only books that have sold that way are the ones I've bought for myself.
But NOW I know why book-buying traffic has been so much lower than I'd expected: China has banned the viewing of TypePad weblogs.
Ouch; there go my blog revenue estimates—around the bowl and down the hole, as they say. Below is my lost revenue estimate.
My estimate:
1,306,313,812 people in China
x 20% who would have seen my blog
x 50% of those who might want a book in English
x 10% of those who would have bought a book
x $.25 per book from Amazon
= $3,265,785 lost blog revenue due to China's stupid censorship law.
Time to revise my balance-of-year spending budget, I guess.
