How Commontide handles affiliate links on the saints' bibliographies.
Some of the books recommended on a saint's page carry an Amazon affiliate link. These links appear only inside the Bibliography section of an individual saint's page — never inside Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Compline, the readings, the psalter, the calendar, or any other prayer surface. The prayer book is not a storefront.
Commontide participates in the Amazon Associates program under the store tag amazoncommon-20. When a reader follows one of these links and makes a qualifying purchase, Amazon pays Commontide a small commission at no additional cost to the reader. The link is marked rel="sponsored noopener" so that search engines and assistive technology can recognize the commercial relationship.
Every paid recommendation is paired, wherever a faithful edition exists, with a free public-domain alternative — from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, sacred-texts.com, confessio.ie, and similar archives. A reader who prefers not to follow an affiliate link, or who cannot or will not buy a printed copy, should never be cut off from the writings of the church on that account.
The affiliate revenue helps keep Commontide free to read and free to pray. The free public-domain links beside each paid recommendation are the reason the affiliate revenue is allowed to exist: the cost of a book has never been an acceptable barrier between a Christian and the words of the church, and pairing the two preserves that principle.