AbeBooks UK Affiliates Blog

Increase your AbeBooks sales in August - 25% Off Prices for more than 20,000 Secondhand & Rare Books

Skip the summer slump and increase your sales in August by promoting an exclusive 25% off sale on AbeBooks.co.uk!

The seller C-books is offering more than20,000 books with 25% lower prices until 31st August. From academic books to fiction to modern first editions - C-books offers an extensive variety of different books. Benefit from this great promotion and inform your customers about the C-books sale!

We have created a special landing page for this promotion. You will find the link to this page under "Textlinks" in your Zanox and CJ account.

Please let us know if you have any questions or need more information.

Faster response times for Search Web Services

We are happy to inform you that we successfully upgraded the hardware and software that support our online search functionality. This will result in a faster and more robust search as well as improved response times for queries over the Search Web Services (API). 

Please let us know if you have any questions:affiliate@abebooks.co.uk

Free Postage Banners

We have some new Free Postage/Shipping banners up for AbeBooks.co.uk as well as for AbeBooks.com. They're already uploaded to the affiliate networks. The usual sizes are up there, but if you need additional sizes please email us and we'll get them to you.

Free Postage has great conversions for many sites, including coupon and loyalty/reward sites, and since there's no minimum purchase it's a great offer for your visitors.

Here's a sample of what they look like:

AbeBooks at Affiliate Summit West -- Las Vegas

Just to let everyone know that Heather will be at Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas from Jan 10-13th. It's three days of affiliate marketing seminars, talks, and networking. If you're coming and would like to meet up let us know.

Happy Holidays!

Is the banner dead?

In the last few weeks there's been a lot of discussion in the affiliate world (at least in the US) over display advertising. Both sides of the argument are weighing in on whether banners and displays ads are an outdated form of advertising.There is an interesting article posted in ReveNews a few weeks ago -- sorry for the delay in posting it here -- on this topic.