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No. Only eBooks and audiobooks hosted on BooksOnline and sold directly by BooksOnline are included in the Affiliate Program. Links to Amazon for any books will take you outside our Affiliate Program. This means if someone follows a link for a paperback to Amazon from the Detail Listing Page of an eBook or audiobook on BooksOnline, and they purchase that book directly from Amazon, no affiliate fee will be paid. Amazon has it’s own affiliate program, which it calls the Associates Program.
Here are 17 compelling reasons to list your eBooks and audiobooks on BooksOnline.Club:
Benefit #1. BooksOnline pays a royalty of 60% (base royalty of 30% + 30% affiliate fee) on all your eBooks no matter the price. Amazon pays a royalty of only 35% on your eBooks priced outside the price range of $2.99 to $9.99.
Example: If your eBook is listed at $24.99, Amazon only pays you 35% or $8.74. BooksOnline pays you 30% royalty as the author plus 30% of sales through your affiliate link, or 60%, which is $14.99.
Example: If you had 1,000 sales of this same book, your total royalties from Amazon would be $8,740 vs. BooksOnline where your total royalties would be $14,990.
Example: If you sell an eBook on Amazon priced at $9.99 you earn 70% or $6.99. If you price that same eBook at $19.99 on Amazon, you earn 35% or $6.99. This is how ridiculous it can get at Amazon. BooksOnline pays from the same royalty schedule no matter how you price your eBook. Price it higher, if the market will bear it, and you earn more, but not necessarily at Amazon.
Benefit #2. BooksOnline pays you a royalty of 60% (base royalty of 30% + 30% affiliate fee) on all your audiobooks no matter the price. Amazon through ACX only pays you 25% if you don’t give them the exclusive license to distribute your audiobook.
Example: If your audiobook sells for $14.99 Amazon only pays you $3.75 for a nonexclusive. BooksOnline pays you 30% royalty as the author plus 30% of sales through your affiliate link, or 60%, which is $8.99.
Example: If you had 1,000 sales of this same audiobook, your total royalties from Amazon would be $3,750 vs. BooksOnline where your total royalties would be $8,990.
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BooksOnline.Club is an independent book distributor (Indie Book Distributor) that distributes eBooks and audiobooks for authors in a small non-fiction niche with the mission of focusing primarily on the needs of authors and readers. Unlike other large distributors or aggregators, BooksOnline is not interested in listing millions of books for the sake of volume and squeezing as much profit as possible from the hard labor of authors. Our mission statement sets us apart:
BooksOnline.Club is a digital and audio bookstore that sells books with a purpose, and that purpose is to improve people’s lives. It is our goal to help people find answers to their biggest questions, and to give our customers the practical applications to apply the knowledge and wisdom shared by our authors in these books. We seek to build this business on a foundation of truth, honesty, and integrity. That means all our technology, our web presence, our book inventory, and the processes that our buyers, authors, and affiliates experience are built and maintained with those values in mind. Since so much of the entertainment and information services across America today promote all kinds of evil, our mission sets us apart from the vast majority. Our books span across a variety of interesting subjects: business and life success, real estate, politics, christian living, and even some so-called “conspiracy theory” books. We believe that honesty and integrity in our books in all categories without limiting freedom of speech or censoring true civil discourse, and our total commitment to the best possible customer experience will give our readers and authors and affiliates a pleasant experience with us, and hopefully we will build loyalty that will help us reach more people, so we can help them improve the quality of their lives, too.
BooksOnline specializes in eBooks and audiobooks. Print books must be purchased at Amazon.
BooksOnline is primarily a non-fiction bookstore. That doesn’t mean we don’t carry some fiction or other genres, but we are very good with non-fiction and how to market non-fiction.
Yes you can. BooksOnline does not require exclusivity with your eBooks or audiobooks. You are in command of how you want to distribute and market you book. We’re here to help, and our powerful Affiliate program brings you a marketing advantage you won’t find at any of these others distributors.
We do recommend you sell your books on Amazon, and from there you can chose to add any other distributors or aggregators you want to with our full support and blessings.
Authors earn 30% as a base royalty plus 30% for sales through their affiliate link. This means that you earn 60% royalty for all sales through your affiliate link, which is how you promote your book. You register as an Affiliate and include that link on your YouTube channel, podcast, website or blog, or by posting on social media. We have an entire marketing system already for you to plug into. You don’t have to re-create the wheel or do any heavy tech lifting. We’ve done it all for you.
When you compare royalties on other sites, including Amazon, you find out that ours is generous because we don’t play games by reducing your royalty if you price your eBook outside our predetermined price range, like Amazon does from $2.99 to $9.99 and then you only get 35%. In addition, Amazon only pays you 35% on public domain books you republish.
BooksOnline does not have numerous programs which we call “traps for the unwary” that lock you into exclusivity or prohibit you from handling pricing and promotions without putting you in handcuffs.
The bottom line is you earn 30% on sales if you do nothing to promote your book, 60% if you post an affiliate link to your book and people buy it, but the big and most powerful tool we bring to the table for you is that dozens or hundreds of people will be motivated to promote your book with their affiliate link because they earn 30% on every sale.
Mosts authors are going to be a little skeptical about an affiliate system that we say could sell more books for you than any other marketing technique, but there’s an easy answer for you that takes away all the risk for you. It cost you nothing to host your book with BooksOnline, and it cost you nothing to become an Affiliate, and you can still market your book with any other distributor or aggregator at the same time. With many YouTubers earning massive passive incomes with affiliate marketing, there is absolutely no doubt that this generates sales and can earn a lot of money for authors.
The point of sharing all this about the affiliate program is that you need to look at the entire marketing and royalty program and compare that to other distributors. No one else is offering to pay 30% to everyone who sells your book through their affiliate link.
What have you got to lose? By the way, there is much more to the benefits of BooksOnline for authors. You might want to read the 17 Benefits for Authors.
You’re going to love this answer. You can do so much more on BooksOnline than you can with Amazon and other distributors, and this flexibility gives you an incredible set of options to promote your eBook or audiobook. You’ll have three options to promote your book, and you can combine these three in any way you want.
- You can price your eBook and audiobook any way you choose, and there are no negative repercussions from us that will lock you into any programs (“KDP Select” for example), and your royalty does not get reduced if your book is priced above a certain level ($9.99 for Amazon). In addition, we have no crazy restrictions, like Amazon does when they tell you that you can offer your eBook as a free download to promote it but for no more than five consecutive days, and you can’t do that more than once in a 90 period . . . and oh, by the way, you have to give Amazon the exclusive right to distribute your eBook if you’re going to promote your book that way. BooksOnline gives you the power to price your book and change price or offer it free, and there are no restrictions. How’s that for increasing your ability to promote your book?
- You can use our Coupon Code program to issue a discount code to anyone you want to, or to a group of people, like your newsletter subscribers, or a FB group. This Coupon Code is not public, and only those you give it to will be able to use it. This means your eBook is listed at its regular price, but you can create a coupon that gives people a 10% or 30% or 50% or 90% discount, or any other amount. How’s that for increasing your ability to promote your book?
- BooksOnline also offers Gift Cards. These gift cards can be purchased for any amount and given via email for family or friends to get a copy of your eBook or audiobook. This is a wonderful and positive way to get someone to read your book while sending them a big hug and kiss at the same time. They’ll be grateful and don’t forget to ask them to share your book with others on social media. They could even become an Affiliate and earn 30% for every sale through their affiliate link. How crazy is that? You bless someone, get a positive review from them, and they end up being part of your informal marketing team and selling books while they keep earning a passive income! You gotta love this stuff!
DRM has become a very hot topic of late, primarily because both authors and readers are realizing that the negatives and downside of DRM coded into an eBook can far outweigh the benefits and positives to both authors and readers. While the idea of DRM is good at the outset, to protect authors from piracy, in practice you could say “the cure is worse than the disease.” DRM is proprietary at Amazon as well as at Apple, Barnes & Noble, and so on. They engineer their DRM code to keep people in their ecosystems, and they believe that will increase their profits in the long term. As a result eBooks with a proprietary DRM often cannot be read on non-proprietary dedicated eBook readers or eBook apps. Readers get frustrated because they can’t read their Amazon book on non-Kindle devices or other reading apps. They have trouble transferring their eBooks to their own devices.
What readers want is DRM-free eBooks so they can have the freedom to read it on whatever device they have. While eBook hacks and piracy are issues of concern, the much bigger issue that destroys sales for authors is restrictive proprietary DRMs.
You can read our article on DRMs at: The Downside to Digital Rights Management
Yes, we’ve written a detailed article for that gives you specific examples. Here it is: Compare Royalties
You can submit your eBook or audiobook to this submission page, and a member of our staff will follow up with you as soon as practical.
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Yes, this question has been litigated in recent years in clashes between Christian business owners and customers with contrary religious convictions. BooksOnline.Club does not accept all genres, all subjects, and we have the right to turn a book down that violates our convictions. For a full legal update on this subject, you may enjoy reading this article:
Yes. There is no long-term commitment with BooksOnline.Club. We don’t charge you a fee to host your eBook or your audiobook, and we don’t charge any kind of subscription fee. We support you with our service at our cost, and you can decide to terminate your account, pull your book, and walk away. No questions ask. We sure are nice people.
What makes BooksOnline.Club unique as a book distributor? Why would authors and readers be attracted to BooksOnline? The full answer would probably be a two-hour conversation and a lengthy article. But in an effort to get to the point quickly and concisely, I’ll offer this short summary.
BooksOnline.Club attracts readers, authors, and affiliates amid a toxic book industry and a transformative period in American history. Traditional publishing is declining, and while self-publishing and digital books offer benefits, corporate greed, and power struggles often overshadow the interests of authors and consumers. America is undergoing its most significant transition, surpassing the Civil War, Great Depression, Civil Rights Era, and post-9/11 shifts, with widespread changes across political, social, and technological spheres. This “perfect storm” has sparked a mass awakening, with people rejecting lies and seeking truth. BooksOnline.Club serves as a haven, appealing to a majority who value conservatism, truth, and discernment in nonfiction, especially as trust in government and corporations like Amazon—seen as prioritizing profit over consumer interests—erodes. This shift reflects a broader societal push against manipulative business models and a demand for authenticity.
The entire business model of BooksOnline was designed to prioritize the interests of authors and readers. That alone is a long story of years of planning, modeling, and experimenting until, at long last BooksOnline.Club in its current rendition, was born. It is unlikely that you, whether you’re an author or a passionate book reader, will comprehend how much this business model and our site and services truly favor you and work to help you achieve your goals like no other book distributor out there. Perhaps the best way for you to discover all the ways is simply to start using BooksOnline and let it grow on you. You might be surprised.
