The Wardman Wire

Iain has come out with a list of 75 top political books with links through to Amazon. This is probably the most widely use way of earning pocket money on UK Political Blogs. Nearly everybody does it - including me.

The way the Amazon affiliate programme works is that if a person purchases anything from the Amazon website within 24 hours of a click through on an affiliate link, then the affiliate receives between 4% and 10% of the purchase value.

There are certain wrinkles:

• Some high value products (e.g., cameras) have a capped commission.
• Certain peripheral parts of the Amazon supermarket do not pay commission.
• There are several scales of payment, and you can select one up to 23.59 on the last day of the quarter.

The one thing I’m not sure about is if I publish a book review, and someone clicks on my affiliate link less than 24 hours after clicking on (say) Iain’s link, who gets the commission.

I’d expect Iain’s link to dominate if it was first, but then the Net doesn’t always do what I expect.

75 top political books is a fantastic idea for drawing attention to a range of books, and encouraging a range of clicks at the same time.

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