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02-25-2013, 05:49 PM | #47 | |
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I just questioned how many affiliates this would affect, and the wisdom of a business model that depends so heavily on the charity of non-charitable partners. |
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I'm reworking my own site now, and will rarely if ever link to any free promotion books from now on. I'm really sorry for the authors, who signed upf or select because of the free promo days and are now going to have an even harder time getting the number of free downloads necessary to get them noticed on Amazon's own rankings, which is what helps them get sales past the promo dates. |
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An arrangement of exactly the kind of way of sending them traffic and getting paid that Amazon has historically ENCOURAGED their affiliates to engage in. There was no charity involved. And most of us didn't JUST promote free, but also high quality bargain books. |
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02-25-2013, 06:05 PM | #51 | ||
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It's a very one sided business arrangement.
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If you don't like it, stop promoting free books. If enough affiliates do that, their KDP program will suffer, as people stop paying for it because a major benefit is no longer worth the expense. All other parts of their busienss that benefit from free books will suffer as well. (Not that this policy will remain as it stands, assuming the press coverage has been accurate. Amazon has proven, again and again, that they do listen to online outrage, and back down from particularly bad reactions. What I expect, assuming it's not part of the policy arlread, just unreported, is that the stuff that Amazon expressing promotes as free, like the KDP stuff, won't count against the limit.) |
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Since amazon promoted this type of arrangement to their affiliates as a means of monetizing their affiliate accounts, it is obviously one that they approve of, and continue to approve of.
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Bandwidth isn't free.....speaking as someone who buys about 500GB a month of bandwidth from Amazon, which it is safe to assume they make a profit on, I can speak to the "cost" of bandwidth. Amazon charges me roughly 10c per gigabyte. A gigabyte is about equivalent to anywhere from 2000 to 3000 books on average. So for the traffic to send those books, if I was being charged for them, 20,000 books would be, at most, around 10GB, which would have cost me $1 to buy that bandwidth from Amazon. Sorry, but I don't buy that this has ANYTHING at all to do with the cost of sending those books. The vast majority of kindles out are not 3G, but even for 3g traffic, the most they would pay is about a penny each, as I can buy retail side traffic by the MG for 2c/MB at very low quantity points. So I still don't buy that, I think if it was 3G traffic Amazon was concerned about, there were easier ways to go about limiting that. Emails from Amazon customer service seeking clarifications. Everyone who has done so has gotten a consistent reply, we've been sharing info on the affiliate forums. |
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They obviously continue to approve of it, since they mention indirect purchases on their site, and they still pay people for 24 hours after someone clicks to a free mp3, free amazon prime video, and other similar types of common, non-sales transaction, item linking.
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Amazon's legal department needs to step in and state definitively what are the changes and how they are to be defined. |
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Sorry, but I don't see how this affects me at all. It simply isn't my fight
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There are not 3 conditions, and the thread you mention is people grasping at straws to convince themselves they don't have to adapt. The elusive "if" they keep bringing was in a single email, and didn't refer in any way to a the elusive "third condition" these dreamers are hoping will allow them to not change their program.
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Why do you think that? Amazon are under absolutely no obligation to have an affiliate programme at all. If they do have one, then clearly it has to be under terms that benefit them. They aren't a charity.
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