Amazon Affiliate question.. (is this against the rules?)

Ronnie55

Ronnie55

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So I wrote an ebook and put it on amazon's site thru KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing).

It's currently for sale and I earn commissions from each sale.

Now I'm also signed up and approved for Amazon Associates which is their standard affiliate program where you can put affiliate links on your site and earn commission for each sale.

Is it sketchy or questionable to put affiliate links to my own ebook on some of my sites? So for each sale that clicks thru from my website link, I'd be earning my Kindle Direct Publishing earnings (70% of sale price) plus 10% for my affiliate link. I don't know if they'd hate this though...
 


I'd say it's pretty much against their rules somewhere in the mass of terms.

I did this for years running ebay affiliate stores (using commission junction) for my own listed products and never got caught. I did have different accounts and bank accounts for them tho, unless they checked/check for login IPs etc I can't see how they'd find out.
 
shiftymcnab said:
I'd say it's pretty much against their rules somewhere in the mass of terms.

I did this for years running ebay affiliate stores (using commission junction) for my own listed products and never got caught. I did have different accounts and bank accounts for them tho, unless they checked/check for login IPs etc I can't see how they'd find out.
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Ok I won't try it for an extra 10% haha.

I have the same Amazon login name, the same address, the same everything lol.
 
I really don't think they check, or care. If you go have a look at a few biggish self pub authors websites, the relatively savvy ones have all their books hooked up through affiliate links [not just Amazon]. I would ask to be safe, but there are lots of authors at all different levels already doing it.

Example: Overview | Bella Andre (and she's done huge numbers via kindle).
 
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