It reminds me of websites that insert live stock quotes into their stories.
- generally the information / buy it now link isn't of interest to readers
- more useful generally would be a link to an internal encyclopaedia page: give the reader more information about the company/book, and include stock quotes / buy it now links on that page
- if it's truly useful enough to include inline in the article, the journalist will put it there manually
- a middle ground would be to pull stock quotes / buy it now links out of the main text into the margin
- generally the information / buy it now link isn't of interest to readers
- more useful generally would be a link to an internal encyclopaedia page: give the reader more information about the company/book, and include stock quotes / buy it now links on that page
- if it's truly useful enough to include inline in the article, the journalist will put it there manually
- a middle ground would be to pull stock quotes / buy it now links out of the main text into the margin