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Originally Posted by FF2
So, when I clink on affiliate links for a free book as someone else mentioned, they earn a percentage of ZERO which is ZERO. But if I then purchase a cordless screwdriver for $180.00 they earn a percentage of that sale even though it was not a book! Interesting. If I don't 'log' off Amazon's site but close any Amazon tabs in my browser and come back later that hour, day, do they still earn commissions?
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Correct on the first two. The latter is not supposed to result in any commission (also, if you already had the screwdriver in your cart and only finalized the purchase after clicking a link, no credit is give, either; just new shopping done after a link, thru one order, which includes one-clicks).
With non-Amazon stores, the rules are more complicated (and you are less likely to impulse buy a new Kobo Reader, I suspect); some have cookies, I think, that last longer, others track only thru one sale, ebook or otherwise.
You can use the "open first unread/new post" symbol at the start of the threads you subscribe to and only see the newest posts, so you don't have to wade thru everything (it's that tiny down arrow before the thread title). Won't help much if you haven't been around for a while, as the offerings change so fast - Exodus was free for about 5 minutes earlier today and has already dropped in price again, for example, and Rob Bell's book (posted yesterday) is already pulled from the Kindle store.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I'm really confused, first you say you liked looking in a single thread for the Kindle freebees...
We want a user to limit all their aff links to a single thread... but then you say that will cause you to look in multiple threads.
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I maintained a single thread in the Kindle forum - it was restarted and stickied each month and all new bargains and free books were posted there, ONLY for Kindle. It included books, games, indies (free only) ... everything Kindle. Perhaps once a month some posts had to be deleted by a moderator, as a drive-by author popped by, a lot of off topic comments showed up or there was a duplication of content (due to two posting at the same time).
There is now one thread per person and it can contain books of all content formats. So, yes, the OP in this case has to visit more threads with the new system (presumably he, like many in the Kindle forum, simply ignored this entire forum, before). There are probably fewer threads now, but only for those that paid attention to all the threads in this forum, before. For those that want one particular format, EPUB or Kindle, there is now more to read thru, to find those (then, repeat in each thread). There is also off-topic chatter in the individual threads, which was very much discouraged in the Kindle and nook forum threads.
Regardless, we will all try the new way (I caught one mispost I had yesterday, of a free book; I have gone back and removed all the aff tags from that post).