For California Pubbers: Replace Amazon with Barnes & Noble

Recently, due to tax legislation passed under an emergency measure in California, Amazon dropped all its California affiliates. This has put a lot of online writers in a state of reduced income. What’s a California pubber to do? Well, when one business opportunity closes, another opens up. One good way to handle being dropped as an affiliate by one company would be to go to the competition. And who is Amazon’s greatest competitor? Barnes & Noble.

Here is one way to get a Barnes & Noble affiliate account. First, sign up with Linkshare. Linkshare allows you to open accounts with many merchants. One of them is Barnes & Noble. Once you are accepted into the Barnes & Noble affiliate program, change your Amazon products which are featured on your pubs into Barnes & Noble Products.

Here is an instructional video by Tina Razzell showing how to add a Barnes & Noble product to your article:

This is a good solution to the problem of California pubbers who have lost their Amazon affiliate status. But it can also be used as a supplementary form of income for anyone who wants to try it. In fact, those of us who are still able to use Amazon can place competing ads for the same product from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Competition is a good thing. Give it a try and see if it works for you!

Here is my attempt to do this with my book Ping & the Snirkelly People. I’ve added an image link and a text link that will take a buyer right to the Barnes & Noble site to purchase my book:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ping-and-the-snirkelly-people-aya-katz/1030382159

But for those who want to buy it from Amazon, they can go here:

It’s nice to have choices!