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Originally Posted by taustin
While Amazon is going to get rightly handed their ass over this as it stands right now, I would suggest that perhaps if your readers are going to Amazon and getting 4 (nor 3 or 4, but 4) free books for every book they buy, Amazon's idiotic new policy isn't your biggest problem. Your biggest problem is a business model that depends on the charity of others, who have financial incentive to not be charitable.
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This suggests amazon is losing money on free books. Amazon is the one who CREATED the free ebook market with the KDP Select free promotion days.
Sorry, but this argument that people make to claim this policy change makes sense is really not valid.
I still stand by affiliate division seeing a lot of these sites and deciding independently that this is a "problem" that needed to be solved, and rolled this out without vetting it internally with other divisions before implementing a really awful set of rules.
A lot of the people who are saying "this makes sense" clearly have no grasp on how the affiliate program works, or of its history, or they would know that amazon has actually encouraged affiliates to use the "link to other items/get the cookie set/get paid for other purchases" method of making money.