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Have you considered using Amazon affiliate links to make it easy for your users to buy the books? They get an easy way to buy the recommended book, and you get
by kichik 9y ago
Have you considered using Amazon affiliate links to make it easy for your users to buy the books? They get an easy way to buy the recommended book, and you get a cut of the purchase.
- dangelov 9y agoYeah, but our books are either indie books by independent authors or classics in the public domain. They're all free, so there are no affiliate links to use. We've tried using affiliate links to other Amazon books/products in the past, but it hasn't worked well for us in terms of revenue. Can be a bit hard to sell a book to an NL list expecting free books :)
- kichik 9y agoIf the books are free, what about making money on the way people read them? Kindle affiliate links, maybe a service that sends the free books to your Kindle, affiliate links to reading accessories, etc.
- dangelov 9y agoYeah, we offer an upgraded membership that allows people to directly send books from our site to their Kindle. Affiliate links in general have not worked that great for us in the past though. Perhaps as has been hinted on here, it was a targeting problem and we were sending too general of an ad to the list, instead of more targeted ads based on list segments. We might give it another try with more focused ads.