placing links to my book on my wordpress blog

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  catwoodsporchparty · Member · Jul 16, 2019 at 8:39 pm

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  My blog is on wordpress.com, the basic free site. I now have a book published and would like to know what kind of links and advertising about the book are permissible. I’ve looked at some info but being non-techy, I don’t understand what I’ve found. I’d rather not have to upgrade to another type of blog at this time. Perhaps I will later on.

  My questions are:

  1. I would like to place an image of my book cover in the widget area as a clickable link to the Amazon page which sells the book. Is this permissible with the type of blog I have? If so, I will need step-by-step directions as to how to do this.

  2. With my current blog type, would it be permissible to place occasional links in my posts to the online mail-order pages that sell the book, such as Amazon. Barnes and Noble, and the publisher’s future mail-order site?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 16, 2019 at 9:34 pm

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  It’s allowed on your site under any plan, see https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-amazon-com-affiliate-links-to-your-wordpress-com-site/ for specifics. :)

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  catwoodsporchparty · Member · Jul 16, 2019 at 10:13 pm

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  OK, I’m already have an account at Amazon but I will need to become an Amazon Associate to add the link to the book(?) if I’m understanding that correctly.

  Can I assume from this that it’s NOT permissible to post the links to Barnes and Noble or the mail-order site of the publisher since AFAIK they have no associate program as Amazon does? If that’s so what kind of plan would I need? I do see sites with links to various venues that carry their books.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 16, 2019 at 10:16 pm

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  You don’t need to be an Amazon affiliate to link to a book, you can link to it just like you like any normal web page, but being an affiliate allows you to earn a little bit extra revenue from anyone who follows the links. :)

  You are more than welcome to link to anything anywhere, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, mail order sites, etc. :)

  You can even do that all under the Free plan if you’d like.

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  catwoodsporchparty · Member · Jul 16, 2019 at 10:36 pm

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  Thanks so much!