Google scales back e-book affiliates program, drops some users

When Google launched the program, it was available to“retailers, bloggers, book publishers and other website owners.” They earned referral fees ranging from 6 to 10 percent of a book’s selling price, depending on the number of sales referred. That was a higher rate than the one offered through Amazon’s referral program, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Associates.

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