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.

Free Postage on selected Books

I wanted to let everyone know about our Free Postage page (updated for the holiday season), all books searched for on this page have free domestic postage.  It is a great promotion for the Christmas season and one of the top drivers for visitors to buy.  Increase your conversion rates today! Send traffic to the Free Postage page.

If there are any questions or concerns please let us know!

StatsRemote

For all the affiliates who have trouble tracking their stats from the various networks, please take a look StatsRemote.  I met the Neil the account manager at the A4U Expo, the tool looks very cool and is extremely useful if you are promoting through a lot of different networks, an easy way to keep up to date on your stats and metrics.

Holiday Creatives -- Let's Celebrate!

On the heels of our Holiday Book Shop page on the site released last week, we have now uploaded some new creatives to help promote the page.  Please visit our programs on CJ and Zanox to download the coded links.

Here's a preview of what is available

Please download the creatives from the Networks to ensure proper tracking.

AbeBooks Bestsellers

Hi all, please take a look at the homepage we have updated the bestsellers for April.  These would be great for content pages or for search marketing.  If you would like more specific lists of top sellers or niche books please drop me and email.

Free Postage on Books

I apologize for the lack of posting in the last couple of weeks I hope to catch up in the next couple of days.  I just wanted to point out a fantastic ongoing promotion on our site Free Postage

"AbeBooks.co.uk offers Standard Free Postage within the UK on eligible books, from new books to secondhand books to textbooks. Search millions of titles offered by many AbeBooks.co.uk booksellers. Unlike our competitors we require no minimum purchase! Simply use the search box below to find the book you’re looking for."

This is a great landing page and offer to promote either through paid search, content sites, loyalty or price comparisons.  I have attached an image you can use to promote this page.

Cook Book Landing Page

We have launched another niche area on AbeBooks.  The latest release is "Books for Cooks", a page dedicated to books about Cooking and Food.  If you have not seen our other "Book Rooms" please check them out.

Science Fiction Room

Fantasy Room

Textbook Central

New Books

Rare Books

These book rooms make great landing pages for all affiliate campaigns whether you are doing paid search, or you have content site that is focused on one of the niches.  If you have any suggestions for future niche areas, for AbeBooks to focus on please let me know and I will be sure to add them to our list.

Affiliate Dinner UK

I just wanted to let everyone know about the upcoming Affiliate Dinner in London on March 16th.  I am really excited to attend this event, as I have been reading about similar events in the US and how much everyone has been enjoying them.  If you are in or around the London area I encourage you to sign up and attend.

Ongoing Affiliate Promotion

To keep you all up to date on the current promotion in the program. 

"We are currently offering a 8% commission on all sales for the months of December and January to new or longtime affiliates who incorporate either AbeBooks Search API/ Webservice or Datafeed into their site."

We have had some great feedback from some of you, if you have any questions or concerns about using either of these two tools drop me an email, I will more than happy to talk and discuss how either or both could be incorporated into your site.  As it takes sometime to add these tools to your site, we are more than open to extend this promotion for individuals who are just getting on board.