Why an
online bookstore?
Over the years, I have received many
requests for recommendations on books. These
requests came from clients, colleagues, friends and
family. I occasionally
had a recommendation at hand, ready to be delivered.
Just as often, however, the title or the author has
escaped me and my own copy had already been loaned or
lost. On this site, you can find many of the
books I have recommended to others and many that they
have recommended to me. I have also included
books I have not read (yet) but that are by respected
authors whose ideas and opinions I respect or who are
experts in their respective fields. Other popular
titles may appear in the Amazon.com sections.
These books are listed automatically and are often
unfamiliar to me, so I cannot vouch for their quality.
Do you profit
from these purchases?
Yes, a small percentage of
purchases from Amazon sales that originate at this site is given
back to me. Last I checked, the percentage was around 4 or
5%. In other words, if you bought a $20 book, one dollar
would come back to me. These proceeds are used to support
the costs of running this site and do not represent a
significant source of income to me. Barring a sudden flood
of traffic to this site and many, many purchases, I will
never recoup the cost in money--and certainly not in
time!--to get this site up and running. And that's okay.
What's up
with those wacky ads on the right?
Those are Google Ads, another
effort to offset a small fraction of the cost of maintaining
this site. I get a few cents every time a visitor to this
site follows one of those links. Sorry, I do not control
the content of those ads so some of them may not be relevant.
But, by all means, click on them if you see something
interesting there!
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Who owns and
runs this site?
This site is privately owned and
run by
White Pine Behavioral Health LLC based in Portland, ME, and
managed by Joel Guarna.
More
coming...
Do you
have a question? Email your question to me at
joel@mainepsychology.com
or using the form below. I will attempt to answer any
relevant and appropriate question.
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