Affiliate programs for book blogs? Wait, what? Can book bloggers monetise their blogs through affiliate marketing? Are there any affiliate programs for Indian book bloggers?
These two are the most common questions I get in my affiliate marketing workshop. And to my immense happiness, the answer to both the questions is yes and yes. There are several affiliate programs for book bloggers, even for Indian book bloggers and a book blog can be monetised easily with affiliate marketing.
How?
Let me explain.
Most of the book bloggers rely on sponsored posts and book reviews to monetise their blogs. Although it is a viable option, there are lots of if and buts involved in it. You are at the advertiser’ mercy and at times, they may offer kinds instead of payments.
However, if you want to scale up monetising your blog on books, you cannot ignore affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is easy and generates more revenue than ads or sponsored posts.
In this post, we are going to talk about 5 best affiliate programs for Indian book bloggers so that you can monetise your blog.
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How to choose affiliate programs for book blogs?
To succeed with affiliate marketing, you need a proper content strategy and the right affiliate programs for your blog.
To choose an affiliate program for book blogs, you to consider three things as mentioned in my previous post on choosing the right affiliate program.
- You need to understand your niche and your readers.
- You need to choose an affiliate program that suits your location and readers.
As book bloggers, you already have a blogging niche. But what about your readers? Before you choose an affiliate program for your book blog, consider what type of books your readers like to read. Do they prefer fictions or literary nonfictions? If they like fictions, what genre do they prefer?
If they prefer nonfictions, what type of book your readers like to read? You can get all these answers by going through your comment section or what book reviews get more shares/traffic and using your social media.
Once you promote books that your regular reads frequently, you will get more affiliate sales. So, while choosing an affiliate program for the book blog, you must choose a program that has books from your preferred genre.
Once you know who your readers are, it is easy to know where they live. Check your Google Analytics to know which country they live. The location of you and your readers is important when it comes to choosing an affiliate program for your blog.
You need to choose affiliate programs for book blogs that work in your readers’ location. For example, there are more than 50+ affiliate programs for book blogs available on the internet. Most of these affiliate programs are run by independent bookstores in the United States. Naturally, if you live in India and promote an affiliate program for your book blog that caters to only US audience, it will not work for you. You may out umpteen effort without yielding desired results. So, you need to choose an affiliate program that is effective in your region.
You also need to choose a program that has a good cookie period. Now, what is a cookie period? Cookie period is the duration of the validity period when someone clicks your affiliate link.
Except for Amazon, most of the affiliate program have good cookie period. It means if someone clicks your affiliate link on January 1st and does not buy but buys the book on February 1st, you still get paid. The longer the cookie period, the more chance you have to earn from the product.
I have sorted out 5 affiliate programs for book blogs that works in India. They offer good commission and have good cookie period. However, do check the terms and conditions of each program before you apply.
Disclaimer: The following affiliate programs are shared totally on educational purpose. I do not get any commission when you join them. Also, I do not play any role in approval or their terms and conditions.
5 affiliate programs for book blogs
eBooks
eBooks is one of the largest and premier online marketplace that sells only eBooks. Naturally, it works anywhere in the world and for any genre. They have more than 1.7 million books that span both fiction and nonfiction.
Their affiliate program offers a commission of 8-15% based on the tier and has a cookie period of 45 days.
Sign up for eBooks Affiliate Program
AudioBooks
Audiobooks are slowly capturing the market and every day, more and more people are opting for audiobooks. If your readers love to listen to their favourite books, you can sign up for AudioBooks affiliate program. They offer a 15 days cookie period and different commissions based on the tier.
Sign up for AudioBooks Affiliate Programs
Audible
Ok, it is not a direct book affiliate program but as a book blogger, you can promote Audible membership on your blog. Audible is the audiobook section of Amazon books and they offer 10% royalty for both free trial and premium membership for Audible.
Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle eBooks
You can also promote Kindle Paperwhite devices and Kindle books on your book blog. Amazon offers 10% royalty for every Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle books you sell.
Amazon Books
Amazon is the go-to place for any kind of affiliate program. It is also one of the best affiliate programs for book blogs. They offer 8% commission for books and have a cookie period of 24 hours. However, if the customer adds the product to the cart but doesn’t buy the right way, Amazon extends the cookie period to 90 days. (Source)
I hope you these affiliate programs for book blogs will help you to monetise your blog. I share how to develop a content strategy, how to write an affiliate post and more than 100 affiliate programs for bloggers in my latest book YOUR FIRST $100. Check it out!
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Book blogs certainly will benefit from such affiliate programs. This is useful information and a good way to monetise.
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This is useful information. I had a notion to maybe do a book blog and I will keep this in mind when I do.
Audible is definitely a great affiliate program! Thanks for sharing this resource – it is very helpful 🙂
Your post is now bookmarked.. very insightful.. something i should seriously consider.. thanks!!
A very good post for book bloggers who want to choose affiliate programs to monetize their blogs. Really exhaustive set of tips.
It’s a very helpful post for book bloggers. I review books on my book (not very regular these days) but I do not use affiliated links. But, I think it’s a good idea. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the useful information. These are quite helpful tips to grow Book blogs.
As a book blogger you certianly opened my eyes! thank you !
Quite a good options for book blogs. Useful information.
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This post is very helpful for newbies like me.
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Monetising blogs is always helpful. Thanks for informative post.
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Very helpful post puspanjalee
This is a deeply insightful article for bloggers. Super useful
I had no idea about this affiliation programmes ; its such a useful blog post.
this is an interesting post – i had no idea that there are affiliate programs for book blogs too – this would be so nice to earn and buy more books 🙂
What an insightful and informative post. I am a beginner and I have so much to learn about affiliate marketing.
Thanks for sharing this very useful information. Book blogs will definitely benefit from the suggestions…
Affliate Program is the thing I am trying to read and understand about these days, somehow I was unable to get this exactly but your post made me so many points cystal clear Pushpanjalee, amazed to know that book blogs too could have this much of widenness in affiliate marketing.
This is a great and very helpful post. I love books and recommending it on my blog and I’ve also tied up with amazon affiliate program.
Thank you for this post..have bookmarked it. Will definitely be revisiting it.
Useful information.
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This is helpful Pushpanajalee. I didn’t know about book blog affiliate programs. Will check them out.
Great post for all book bloggers. Affiliate marketing may bring in the much needed revenue.
Wohhoo I tried adding e-books affiliate program for my blog. Thank you for such important information. Wonderful way to earn for book bloggers
Very informative. Thanks a lot.
Such affiliate programs would be such a help to book blogs. Thanks for sharing such an insightful post.
Oh wow! I had no idea that there were so many affiliate programs to get monetise a blog. This is really helpful. I am thinking about shifting to a self-hosted blog and this really helps me with that decision. Thank you so much for sharing.
Audible is is superb affiliate program! Thank you for sharing the list
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Now this is so informative and insightful whenever I am strating with book blogs or for people who already does it
I’m a book Blogger myself and this would be of much help to me to start monetising. #tmmreads
Informative.
Wow! Fantastic post! I wasn’t aware that book blogs can get affiliate links. I have book marked your post for future reading. I visited your blog for the first time, thanks to MFA, must say that your content is very interesting. Keep writing :).
Informative post for book bloggers like me. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, I did try promoting Kindle ebooks and audible membership on my blog as well once! Thanks for listing down the remaining options.
I hadn’t heard of ebooks.com – I think I’ll take a look at their affiliate program. Thanks, Puspanjalee !
Being a book blogger I can say that these are really helpful pointers. I really like your knowledge on how to monetise different kind of blogs. Too good. And how you keep it simple so that people don’t find it daunting. Hamara bhi bhala kar dijiye… 😀 😀
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Read good books, review great books and earn a spot of money from them! This sounds amazing….
Affiliate programs works at their own pace , shall try one of them for our blog. Thanks for making a complete list with all options for book bloggers.
This is am amazing resource. I am yet to write a book, but when I do, I know where to look for affiliates
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