eBooks now outsell paper books
According to some of the recent sales announcements coming out of Amazon, they sold more books for their proprietary Kindle system than they actual, physical, made from bits of pressed and processed dead tree, books.
Whilst this is quite good for the real Amazon (seriously, where do you think most paper grade wood pulp is coming from? It ain’t the commercial hardwood plantations of American oak), what the hell does it have to do with Affiliation Cash programs?
Well, we’ve got Books Download site that no one’s been using for a few years, because the hype around eBooks died out in early 2006 when no one had any decent devices to read them on because iPhones hadn’t come out yet (even though iPod Touch had been out for a while, and most Windows based PDA phones, like the rather nifty XDA, had ebook reading software on them - but, y’know, not iPhone = doesn’t exist).
It now seems like a great time for some of you folk, especially those of you who happen to have domains in the “book” niche, to have a look into and think about promoting it. I can tell you that one of our affiliates saw this one coming and did pretty nicely for themselves out of it with a PPC campaign.
If you’re one of our affiliates working by forwarding links from a warez site, you might want to consider using this from your “books” section if you’ve got one. Those of you doing paid search may want to look into specific models, such as Sony’s Reader Pocket. Whilst Amazon may be pushing it in a very monopolistic manner, the Kindle is not the only game in town.
Happy Hunting - Harvey
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