Double Dipping with the Amazon Associates Program for Authors

About this video

Dale Roberts explains how KDP authors can ‘double dip’ with the Amazon Associates program: on top of the 35% to 70% royalty he cites for a book sale, an author who shares a special Associates link also earns an additional affiliate percentage on that sale — and, he says, on anything else the customer buys through the link, not just the book. He walks through setup: apply in your native region (US, UK, Canada and others), an application he says takes roughly 15 minutes with temporary access granted while full approval is pending, which he says can take one to two weeks. Links must come from the SiteStripe bar at the top of Amazon — he advises using the Short Link text option rather than the messy full link or raw URL — and SiteStripe also has Twitter and Facebook share buttons. He shows the dashboard’s Earnings Report, distinguishing Commissions (what customers bought through your links) from Bounties, flat bonuses for sending people to offers such as Kindle Unlimited, Audible and Prime memberships; he cites the then-current Kindle Unlimited bounty as three dollars and notes KDP Select authors also earn per page read when those readers use KU. Bounties are time-sensitive, he warns. He adds that authors can hold Associates accounts in multiple regions as long as they are getting sales, and closes by pointing viewers to Geniuslink for consolidating all those regional links.

Key takeaways

• Amazon Associates lets authors earn an affiliate percentage on top of their 35–70% royalty when sales come through their special link — and on other items the customer buys too, per the creator.
• Apply in your native region; the creator says the application takes about 15 minutes and temporary access is granted while approval is pending.
• Always build links with SiteStripe and use the Short Link option rather than copying the browser URL.
• Bounties pay flat bonuses for referrals to programs like Kindle Unlimited, Audible and Prime, but they are time-sensitive and change.
• Authors can run Associates accounts in multiple regions and use a link tool like Geniuslink to consolidate them.

Episode details: published July 24, 2021 · 4:10 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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