Comments on: Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program

By: Shack’s Comings and Goings » Sunday Wash-Up

Shack’s Comings and Goings » Sunday Wash-Up — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:19:31 +0000

[...] Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program Smashwords, an online Ebook store for independent authors and their publishers, is launching a new affiliate program that will allow external sites to generate revenue by linking to Ebooks that are being sold on the Smashwords store. [...]

By: Mike Detrinidad

Mike Detrinidad — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:22:03 +0000

Look forward to receiving information on your program.

By: Affilliate Marketing Reviews

Affilliate Marketing Reviews — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:37:36 +0000

Very interesting post. I’m always on the lookout for a new affiliate program. Plus I’m a huge ebook fan, this sounds like a great deal.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:39:43 +0000

Apparently not – http://affiliat...dle-family.html:
“Please note that books formatted for kindle are not eligible to receive referral fees through the Associates program. Associates can earn referral fees on qualifying sales of the following Kindle products: Kindle reader sales (this includes Kindle and Kindle DX), Kindle magazine, newspaper, and blog subscriptions.”

Oddly enough, the Associates can build links to Kindle books … without any warning of this exclusion.

The books vs. subscriptions policy was the other way around, back in Nov. 2007: http://affiliat...10-on-amaz.html

By: internet marketing gurus

internet marketing gurus — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:23:06 +0000

that is a cool program. thanks for sharing. I will look into it.

By: Kamal

Kamal — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:07:46 +0000

What sucks about ebooks is that they’re easily reproducible. If just one person uploads the ebook somewhere, you can hunt it down via the pdf search engine.

By: Kamal

Kamal — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:06:24 +0000

and your blog is called make money easy home? lolvut?

By: Free Freebies

Free Freebies — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:16:34 +0000

ya not bad i’ll probably add it to my site

By: Wesley

Wesley — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:57:31 +0000

Clickbank mostly sells those spammy ebooks on “how to make alot of money”. Granted, they do sell lots of them.

By: P

Tue, 26 May 2009 16:14:34 +0000

I thought Amazon provided affiliate commissions on Kindle book sales?

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:21:57 +0000

You have probably overlooked the biggest player in this space, Clickbank, plus there is eJunkie, PayDotCom and many more.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:58:14 +0000

i have been into blogging for so many months but never got into affiliates .maybe this is opening the doors for me ?

By: Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program

Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:31:25 +0000

[...] Original post by Jason Kincaid [...]

By: Windowslogy

Windowslogy — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:44:28 +0000

That is a good deal. The business model is pretty much like that of the Amazon affiliates, except Smashwords gives a way for an author to offer a higher commission percentage than that is in the default. I am optimistic a new author would offer a higher percentage of commissions if his or her work somehow get exposure.

By: Justyn

Justyn — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:23:55 +0000

This is something the independent publishing space has been missing and I think it’s a great idea. Now eBook creators can stop inserting their own affiliate links into the books, and make money on their ideas instead.

They should do the same for video content.

By: Prem Mishra

Prem Mishra — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:20:24 +0000

The marketing of books is getting interesting and ebooks are adding flavor to it. But there are another facet of ebooks as well. We have ebooks available, however we do not have inexpensive ebook readers. And that is one of the major constraints in the growth of ebooks.

I accept the flexibility ebooks offers. One such case is converting the ebook format so that we can read this in out mobile device. Be it Blackberry, Windows Mobile or plain java phone.

Now it is right time to push for inexpensive ebook reader to public, which will boost the sell of books. And that is what every publisher wants.

Prem