Tag Archives: Amazon Associates

Amazon drops Colorado affiliates

By Steve Weber | Published: March 9, 2010

Amazon doesn’t like to collect sales tax, so when Colorado began requiring the company to report sales to customers in its state, Amazon canceled the Amazon Associates affiliate accounts based in that state. The affiliates collect a small commission when clicks from their Web site result in a sale at Amazon’s site. So, this isn’t [...]

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Kindle books won't pay affiliate commissions for Amazon Associates

By Steve Weber | Published: May 7, 2009

Perhaps this news came out six months ago, and I missed it. Or maybe Amazon slipped this into the fine print in yesterday, knowing it would be ignored amid the Kindle DX media frenzy. In the last paragraph of yesterday’s announcement of Kindle DX on the official Amazon Associates blog: Please note that books formatted [...]

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Q&A: Should I send book buyers to Amazon, or sell to them on my Web site?

By Steve Weber | Published: December 4, 2007

QUESTION: Why do author Web sites send all their customers to Amazon? Intelligent authors sell books exclusively from their own sites. Why send your hard-won customer to Amazon, just so they can steal your customer data, take a big cut of your profit, and undermine your marketing effectiveness? ANSWER: I agree that if the author [...]

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Amazon widgets help plug your book on blogs, social networks

By Steve Weber | Published: September 24, 2007

Every day of the week, I look over dozens of author MySpace profiles and blogs. And every day, I’m appalled at how many don’t show off the author’s book with a cover image or link to Amazon. Often the site will say simply, “Check out my book on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.” Well, if [...]

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Amazon adds features to aStores

By Steve Weber | Published: August 16, 2007

Amazon sent this message to members of its Associates program: The Amazon Associates team is excited to announce a great new set of aStore features! Since the launch of aStore last summer we have been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm you all have for the tool. Thanks for your feedback and suggestions so far, and please [...]

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Amazon tags now available in RSS feeds

By Steve Weber | Published: July 5, 2007

There’s a new RSS feed system for Amazon tags. You can aggregate Amazon feeds in a news reader. On most tag pages you’ll find an orange RSS icon and the label “RSS feed.” That means you can subscribe to track new products added to the tag or new discussions posted on Amazon’s site. For example, [...]

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