If you’re an author, you may be wondering how an affiliate program can explode your book sales, and that’s what I’ll address here. What is an affiliate program and how does it work? BooksOnline.Club has a 30% affiliate payout.

A 30% affiliate program for book sales is a straightforward way for authors or publishers to incentivize others to promote and sell their books. Here’s how it works:

1. An author or publisher sets up an affiliate program offering a 30% commission on book sales.
2. Affiliates (such as bloggers, influencers, or book reviewers) sign up for the program.
3. Each affiliate receives a unique link or code to share with their audience.
4. When someone purchases a book using the affiliate’s link, the sale is tracked.
5. The affiliate earns 30% of the book’s sale price as a commission.

Let’s break this down with a simple example with a book listed price of $20:

If an affiliate promotes the book and someone buys it through their link:

– The customer pays: $20
– The affiliate earns: $6 (30% of $20)
– The author/publisher receives: $14 (70% of $20)

Key Points or Author Benefits

• No upfront cost for affiliates: They only earn when they make a sale.
• Win-win situation: The author gains exposure and sales, while the affiliate earns money for their promotional efforts.
• Motivation for promotion: The higher commission rate (30% is quite generous) encourages affiliates to actively promote the book.
• Tracking: Special links or codes ensure accurate attribution of sales to the correct affiliate.
• Payment threshold: Often, there’s a minimum amount an affiliate must earn before they can cash out their commissions.

Benefits

1. Expanded reach: Authors can tap into the audiences of various affiliates.
2. Performance-based: Authors only pay when books are sold.
3. Passive income for affiliates: They can earn money long after the initial promotion.

How Does This Work With BooksOnline.Club?

Don’t forget, the affiliate program is for eBooks and audiobooks hosted at BooksOnline and does not include print books ordered through Amazon.

As an author, you can earn 60% of your list price if you post your affiliate link on your YouTube channel, social media, podcasts or blogs, and people purchase your book through your affiliate link. If you author the book and other affiliates sell it, you earn 30% of the listed price, the affiliate who sold it earns 30% and BooksOnline retains 40%, is pays for all our costs and leaves a reasonable profit on the table. Again, if you as an author post your affiliate link on a YouTube video, and someone purchases your book through that link, you will earn 30% plus 30% for a total of 60%.

These percentages apply to all eBooks and audiobooks hosted at BooksOnline.Club, unlike Amazon which only pays you 35% for eBooks priced below $2.99 or above $9.99. Within that range Amazon pays 70%.

Remember, BooksOnline.Club is going to pay a 30% affiliate fee to whomever generates sales by promoting your book with their own affiliate link. The affiliate program motivates others (dozens, hundreds, or even thousands) to promote your book 24/7 all over the world by simply posting an affiliate link to your book. We actually teach them how to do that with a system we already created for them. It takes less than 60 seconds to post an affiliate link on social media with a beautiful cover image of your book and a hot link to your book.

Amazon does not have that built-in marketing system with a 30% affiliate program. They do pay about 5% on an affiliate program they call their Associates Program, but affiliates who get approved have to go online and build their own lead generation systems to get people to click on their link.

Authors can still sell their books on Amazon, and as long as you haven’t given Amazon exclusives, you can host them at BooksOnline.Club too. That’s the best way to make the most money and get your book before the most people.