Time for my annual July fund-raising campaign
This week I celebrate the 14th anniversary of the start of this website. As I do every year, I am celebrating this occasion with a month-long fund-raising campaign, asking my readers to consider donating or subscribing in whatever amount they can afford.
I keep the webpage simple (no pop-ups and it loads fast) and take no advertising or sponsors. I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers. The result is that I can speak my mind freely, sometimes coming to conclusions that might not be allowed otherwise. Yet, though my traffic continues to rise, actual donations have dried up in the past two months. Worse, in recent months I have lost more subscribers than I have gained. It is therefore critical for this campaign to be a success in order for me to pay my bills.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. There are five ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation. Patreon takes a 12% cut.
3. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to:
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
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4. Paypal: You can use the Paypal options in the tip jar elsewhere on the page to either donate or subscribe. Of all the options, Paypal takes the largest cut, about 16%.
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above. And if you buy the books through the ebookit links, I get a larger cut and I get it sooner.
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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I’d like to suggest that you pay for your hobby yourself.
Why should anyone support your tax deductible website where you sell your books 24/7/365 days a year.
Quit begging and pay your own bills.
As soon as you write something worth paying for I’ll send money.
Don’t hold your breath.
Funny.
https://youtu.be/rdwz0W7l_IM?si=xZlrEKyvg7Uc3fHf
Moronically funny
That escalated quickly
https://t.ly/XqobD
Say the best, think the rest.
You can’t brighten your day by blowing out someone else’s candle.
Bosco Bob,
Why? Because the site provides interesting information, mostly about space exploration efforts, but also about a number of other topics.
Why? Because the owner very obviously appreciates and respects his audience, and he is willing to engage with it regularly.
Why? Because the owner, through Cool Images and Evening Pauses, keeps the site entertaining, and not simply informative.
Why? Because the owner has common sense.
Such a site is, indeed, worth visiting and worth supporting.
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You are correct, Bob does publish interesting info occasionally. He also spreads russian propaganda. I assumed Putin was financing the site.
Respects his audience?
You must be new here.
I have seen vile behavior from Bob in the comments directed at people who disagreed with him. It doesn’t happen every day but it’s childish behavior from someone old enough to know better.
I’m sure Bob at some point in his life had
common sense but if you read his rantings about covid it is obvious he has no medical expertise and he proves it over and over and over and over. Read the external links when he provides them. He has in the past linked to retracted papers, and he really likes to link to preprint papers that have not yet been peer reviewed, that is, if the title sounds like it supports his point. If this kind of cherry picking the data seems OK to you, enjoy! But that’s not how science works.
He apparently seems to think he knows something about climate science too, he read a book once. Same cherry picking data, same lack of any expertise, you can believe that too if you like.
If you enjoy his disinformation by all means please send him all your money.
I have no problem with Bob publishing whatever he desires, true or not.
I just think he should pull himself up by his bootstraps and quit being a Marxist freeloader.
Pay your own bills like a good little conservative should.
Bosco Bob,
Maybe you’re correct, and I’m “new” here . . .
Then again, I have been visiting the site, just about every day, for well over a year, and I have not been triggered in the same manner that you apparently have.
I wonder, if the site and its owner are so bad, why are YOU here? Do you believe you are working to “save” its readers from its owner and his common sense?
Actually, I really don’t care whether or not you answer these questions. If you are dumb enough to believe the site is owned by a Marxist or a Putin promoter, your opinion isn’t worth my time.