Affiliate Disclosure
Effective Date: July 29, 2026
Readhubb.com is built around helping readers find good books and grow through them but we also want to be upfront about how this site supports itself financially. This page explains that clearly, in plain language, so there’s nothing hidden about how Read Hub works.
What Are Affiliate Links?
If you’re not familiar with the term, an affiliate link is simply a link that lets a website earn a small commission when someone clicks it and makes a purchase. The link itself works exactly like any other. It takes you to the product or service being mentioned but it includes a code that tells the retailer the visit came from Read Hub.
You’ve almost certainly encountered affiliate links before, even if you didn’t notice. They’re a common way for independent websites, bloggers, and content creators to earn a modest income without charging readers directly for the content they publish.
How This Applies to Read Hub
Some of the links on Read Hub particularly in book recommendations, reviews, and resource lists are affiliate links. When you click one of these links and go on to make a purchase, we may earn a commission from that sale.
This comes at no additional cost to you. The price you pay is the same whether you use our link or go to the retailer directly; the commission is paid by the retailer out of their own margin, not added onto what you spend.
Read Hub currently participates in affiliate programs such as Amazon Associates, and we may join other reputable affiliate networks or partner programs over time as the site grows. Rather than updating this page every time a new program is added, we want to be transparent from the outset: assume that some links across the site may be affiliate links, even if a particular program isn’t named here specifically.
Why This Matters to Us
Running a website like Read Hub takes real time researching topics, writing articles, maintaining the site, and making sure the content is worth reading in the first place. Affiliate commissions are one of the ways we’re able to keep doing that without putting our content behind a paywall or charging readers a subscription just to access it.
In short, when you use an affiliate link on Read Hub, you’re helping support the free content on this site including the article you’re reading right now.
Not Every Link Is an Affiliate Link
It’s worth being clear: not everything we link to is monetized. Many links on Read Hub simply point to sources we’ve referenced, related articles, external research, or other websites we think are genuinely useful with no financial relationship involved at all.
We don’t go out of our way to distinguish every single link on every page, but as a general rule, book recommendations and product mentions are the most likely places you’ll come across affiliate links.
Our Recommendations Are Still Honest
This is probably the most important part of this page: we don’t recommend a book or resource just because it happens to have an affiliate link attached.
Every recommendation on Read Hub is based on our own research, editorial judgment, and honest opinion. If we think a book is genuinely worth your time, we’ll say so and if we have reservations about something, we’ll mention those too, rather than glossing over them for the sake of a commission.
Whether or not a link earns us anything has no bearing on:
- Whether we choose to recommend a book or resource
- How positively or critically we write about it
- Which titles make it into our lists and guides
We’d rather build a site people trust over the long run than optimize individual articles for short-term affiliate income. If those two goals ever came into conflict, we’d choose trust every time.
We Encourage You to Do Your Own Research
Even with our best effort to be thorough and honest, we’re still just one perspective. Before making a purchase, especially a larger one, we’d always encourage you to compare options, read other reviews, and make the decision that genuinely fits your needs and budget, rather than relying on any single article, including ours.
Our goal is to point you in a useful direction, not to be the only voice you consider.
A Note on Transparency
We believe disclosure shouldn’t be buried in fine print or written in language designed to be skimmed past. That’s why this page exists as its own clearly linked page, rather than a single line hidden somewhere in a footer.
If you ever have questions about a specific link, a partnership, or how affiliate relationships work on this site, feel free to reach out through our Contact page. We’re glad to explain further.
Questions About This Disclosure
If anything on this page is unclear, or if you’d like more detail about a specific affiliate relationship mentioned in an article, you’re welcome to contact us directly. We’d rather answer a question honestly than have a reader left guessing.
Thank you for supporting Read Hub whether that’s simply by reading, sharing an article, or using one of the links on this site. It genuinely helps keep this project going.