more about the ETAF-amazon collection

By far, not all of the items you can buy at Amazon are members of the Collection. Only works that ETAF recommends earn this status.

• To be a member of the Collection, a work or performance must, in the opinion of Electricka and her visitors, be of high quality; it must be available at a price commensurate with its value.

ETAF remains staunchly objective and independent when it recommends arts resources for the ETAF-Amazon Collection. It always keeps you and the arts first and foremost in mind.

You

When you use the ETAF-Amazon Association to purchase arts-related materials or other goods. You help yourself while you help the arts.

• Since prices for arts goods acquired this way are comparatively low, you stretch your dollars.
• It can be easier to find and buy high quality materials at reasonable prices.
• You receive convenient, rapid access to a huge inventory of fine arts materials.
• Shopping on the Internet saves you valuable time and energy.
• When you pay less to acquire items, your dollars buy more. Your collection grows larger, faster.
• ETAF and Amazon each provide supplementary information about the items in this program, including critical reviews and comments. You can use this information to help you decide on the right items for your specific wants, needs, and pocketbook; you zero in quickly and efficiently on the right arts-related products for you.
• You have the satisfaction of knowing that you have helped advance the arts (see below).

ETAF and the arts

Through this association ETAF helps art enthusiasts, art lovers, and anyone interested in the arts:

• We feel that the Collection helps promote the arts by improving and facilitating the arts acquisition process and by helping ensure that nothing but the best reaches the buying public.
• Not all the arts-related items you will find at Amazon are part of the ETAF-Amazon Collection. To be selected for the collection by ETAF, an item has to be superior in some way, better or more appropriate than other available options, at a cost commensurate with its value.
• A small part of every purchase you make is returned to ETAF at no extra cost to you (see below), ETAF uses a significant portion of this return to keep this web site going. The number or amount of your purchases may be small, but when enough people buy enough items, your repeat purchases and those from other buyers add up. The total amount returned to ETAF constitutes a significant portion of the revenues that keep Electricka going. Since we do our best to promote the arts, anything that keeps this web site going becomes an indirect contribution to the arts.
• Virtually every item Amazon offers for sale is within the scope of this program. Your purchases don't have to be arts-related to count toward helping ETAF help the arts.

about your donation to the arts

At no cost to you, this affiliation returns to ETAF a small amount of the purchase price of every item you buy. We consider this amount a donation to the arts because funds that help us help you help others. (Sorry, since a portion of these funds go to DCI, ETAF's parent company, which is a for-profit corporation, this kind of a donation is not tax-deductible).

ETAF

ETAF is dedicated to the arts and to quality in the arts. It's primary objective in participating in the Association is to assist Electricka's visitors while advancing the arts.

• ETAF offers objective arts-related facts and honest opinions about the best creative artists, titles, performances, and other aspects of the arts.
• By far, not all items sold by Amazon find their way into the ETAF-Amazon Collection. ETAF recommends only what it believes to be arts items worthy of acquisition.
• ETAF recommends inexpensive versions of an item when they are available and of high quality. For example, ETAF will consistently recommend inexpensive editions of a book that may be as good or better than their more expensive counterparts.
• ETAF recommends what it feels are the best alternative versions of an item, for example, the best translations for a book, the best performances for a recording.

Amazon

Amazon is a large, strong, independent, efficient, and service-oriented. When you add to your arts-related holdings from the Collection, you receive the customary benefits that accrue from purchasing arts-related or other goods through this kind of retailer. In addition:

• Amazon offers reviews by publishers and Amazon visitors that are independent of ETAF recommendations.
• Amazon provides information on publication status and availability.
• Amazon provides a vehicle for you to acquire items easily and at comparatively low cost.
• Amazon takes care of all searching, sales processing, delivery, and follow-up after the sale.

When you see the ETAF-Amazon Association image on a page at Electricka's web site:

• Click the words Search Amazon on the image to conduct a search at Amazon from ETAF. You can search by product category (including ALL) or keyword.
• Click the black-and-white Amazon.com icon on the image to visit the Amazon.com home page, where you can employ the full range of Amazon search techniques to learn more about arts-related materials or to acquire them.
• Click the words Visit the ETAF-Amazon Page on the image to visit Electricka's ETAF-Amazon page.

—tip— searching amazon Try searching Amazon now: Click the words Search Amazon in the ETAF Amazon image and see what happens. Click the black area in the ETAF Amazon image and see what happens.