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How to Make Higher Royalties From Your Books

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Robert C. Worstell
Jun 03, 2014
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Affiliate Book Sales can earn you even higher book royalties. Some tricks, though.

You can get some of the distributors to pay you affiliate payments on top of your royalties.

The simple approach is to get your distributors to pay you affiliate sales fees on top of your royalties. None of them do it the same way, some don't at all.

What this will give you is sometimes another 6-8% on top of whatever you are already getting - nice work when you just send readers from your web page...

Here's the breakdown:

Kobo - yes, via Rakuten - http://cli.linksynergy.com/cli/publisher/links/deeplinks.php

B&N - yes, "private" (Rakuten) - http://affiliates.barnesandnoble.com/join-now/

iTunes - yes - https://signup.performancehorizon.com/signup/en/itunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes_app_store_affiliate_program.html

Amazon - if you live in the right states

GooglePlay - no (but they say you can run Adsense on your site - FWIW)

LeanPub - yes, 50%, but it's a net wash - https://leanpub.com/affiliates - https://leanpub.com/affiliateterms - (for self-publishing auth…

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