New Section on Album Pages

[Secret Squirrel]

By now many of you will have noticed that there's a new section entitled "Available at" on the album pages. This was in fact partially motivated by a desire to create an unobtrusive way to recoup some of the site's monthly expenses. VGMdb has enrolled in affiliate programs with both PlayAsia and CDJapan, and will probably look to add a couple more. This means that we earn a small commission when a sale is made to someone who follows the links from our site. I don't expect it'll cover our whole monthly bill, but it will help. You can help support VGMdb by using these links when you purchase albums.

We are more interested in providing useful information than in generating revenue, so this section isn't going to be restricted to just affiliates. We're also using this box to indicate when there are copies for sale by users in our Marketplace. This is something that didn't seem to fit (philosophically) on our album pages until now.

We will soon be opening up public submission of these links (moderated of course). This is really aimed at the some of the smaller sources, and will provide a good way for us to help support the remix community.