The AbeBooks Affiliate Program

Affiliate Program News

AbeBooks is now on the Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick Performics). Thanks to all those affiliates who switched their links during the network migration in May. We appreciate your loyalty.

If you have any questions feel free to contact Heather at affiliate@abebooks.com.

If you still have some old CJ links active, here are some tips for changing over your links:

If you are a new AbeBooks affiliate, please check out our short PowerPoint presentation on all the linking options and tools available to you.

With over 110 million books to offer, as well as a variety of resources for promotion, working with our program is both easy and profitable.

If a buyer clicks through a link to us on your web page, html email or PPC ad, you can make up to 7% of that user’s purchases. Even if they click through your link and don’t purchase anything right then, any AbeBooks purchases they make over the next 90 days will count towards your commissions. With thousands of sales occurring on our site per day, those commissions really add up! Whether you’re adding links to a price comparison site, shopping portal, blog or personal site, you can make extra revenue by referring buyers to new, used and rare books from around the world with the AbeBooks.com affiliate program.

There are 3 simple steps to getting started:

	1. Sign up with Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick Performics) Sign up with Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick Performics), our affiliate network provider. The service is free and signup is easy. 2. Choose your promotional methods Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick Performics) has banners, buttons, textlinks and search boxes to satisfy whatever means of promotion you prefer. Available in both basic html and javascript, integration is easy, and don’t hesitate to contact us about custom graphics or other opportunities for placement. 3. Copy and paste the provided code Copy and paste the provided code into the source code of your site, html email or search ad, and see how much traffic you can drive to us. Just remember, the more visible the ad, the more sales you will get. Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick Performics) also offers some great reporting tools so you can track exactly how many sales you are driving.