To clear things up: Amazon doesn't pay anything to their affiliates for Kindle products. I mean, they pay if you actually manage to sell the device itself, but not if you sell any of the books. This came as a huge surprise to all the affiliates - we had already sold a lot of Kindle ebooks before Amazon not only changed their policy, but also withdrew the funds that had already been marked as going to be paid to the affiliates.
Nuytsia, please don't feel bad - I use the BD myself as well, and like I said, have already set up an affiliate account there as well. Before I figure out how to best implement direct links to the books in their store, the best way (if you want to help that is) is to visit them through the link I posted above. Please, please note that I don't require, demand or expect any of you to do that. It's just something you *can* do if you want - you still buy the same book with the same price you were going to pay anyway - but if you buy from Amazon through my links, it feeds my book hoarding hobby and if you buy from the Book Depository through my link(s) a small sum goes towards hosting this site.
Again, I want to stress that I'm not doing this to make thePlenty.net "profitable". I've participated in the affiliate program at Amazon for about 3 years now. I've got 2 gift certificates so far (one from the .com, one from .co.uk site). That means about 4 books I've purchased with them if I remember correctly - and I have a couple of other, smaller, sites that also contributed to that with DVD sales etc. If you want to learn more about the affiliate programs (since my explanations probably aren't very clear anyway
), here's a couple of links: the Book Depository affiliate program and the Amazon.co.uk affiliate program (both Amazon programs work in basically same way, although some things are different, for example the amounts needed for the gift certificate etc - oh, and that "up to 10%"? Never seen it. Happens only when you sell TONS of stuff each month).
Nuytsia, please don't feel bad - I use the BD myself as well, and like I said, have already set up an affiliate account there as well. Before I figure out how to best implement direct links to the books in their store, the best way (if you want to help that is) is to visit them through the link I posted above. Please, please note that I don't require, demand or expect any of you to do that. It's just something you *can* do if you want - you still buy the same book with the same price you were going to pay anyway - but if you buy from Amazon through my links, it feeds my book hoarding hobby and if you buy from the Book Depository through my link(s) a small sum goes towards hosting this site.
Again, I want to stress that I'm not doing this to make thePlenty.net "profitable". I've participated in the affiliate program at Amazon for about 3 years now. I've got 2 gift certificates so far (one from the .com, one from .co.uk site). That means about 4 books I've purchased with them if I remember correctly - and I have a couple of other, smaller, sites that also contributed to that with DVD sales etc. If you want to learn more about the affiliate programs (since my explanations probably aren't very clear anyway
), here's a couple of links: the Book Depository affiliate program and the Amazon.co.uk affiliate program (both Amazon programs work in basically same way, although some things are different, for example the amounts needed for the gift certificate etc - oh, and that "up to 10%"? Never seen it. Happens only when you sell TONS of stuff each month).
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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