A very quick post on this one. It is remarkably simple. At least if you already have an amazon.com account, which I did.

Once you’ve confirmed the address you want to associate with your affiliate account, you then answer a few multiple choice questions on the nature of the referring web-site and the content it contains, agree to the terms of their affiliate agreement, and you are done (pending approval in 1 to 3 days).

You can choose to be paid with Amazon.com credit, direct credit to a US bank account, or via check. Minimum amount is $10, or $100 for physical checks with a $15 processing fee.

The only thing left to do is to start inserting their “specially formatted URLs” when linking to products on amazon.com, and this site will become part of the global spiderweb of Internet commerce!