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.