Amazon Affiliate Program

[Wilhelmina Randtke]

In general, Amazon Affiliate links are driving traffic off your library
website to Amazon with no benefit to the library other than any payments of
money.  If this is not about providing a better service to patrons, it's
probably not a good idea.  Pulling cover images or reviews or something
useful to a patron has a benefit.  They can see more info about the book
and decide whether or not to read it.  Putting a link to get that book from
someone other than the library seems to go against the concept of getting
books from the library.  Library or Amazon?  Library points at Amazon and
shrugs.  Not professional.

-Wilhelmina Randtke
On Feb 5, 2014 7:34 AM, "Graham, Stephen" <s.graham4 at herts.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi All - just wondering if there are any academic libraries out there who
> are part of the Amazon Affiliate Program? If so, what does it actually
> entail, and was there any local opposition to becoming a member? We are
> looking at services which provide content enrichment such as books cover,
> ToCs, Description etc for our OPAC, and saw that that the Amazon Product
> Advertising API can be used for this? It seems to use this API, you need to
> become an Affiliate member. Any thoughts on this? Links to OPACs that use
> Amazon in this way?
>
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>
> Cheers, Stephen
>
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> Stephen Graham
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> Online Information Manager
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> Information Collections and Services
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> University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield.  AL10 9AB
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> Tel. 01707 286111
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> Email s.graham4 at herts.ac.uk
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