Selling Books and Art
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Hello,
I know that this is a long letter, but please hear me out. I am a new blogger, and I have a concern I’d like to make known before I begin setting up my blog. I have reviewed several forums and reviewed ToS to the best of my ability within wordpress regarding selling products and adding affiliate links. I do not want to come under the radar of violating the ToS or other conditions, so before I start anything, I want to make sure that I am following the rules.
I am an artist and trying to become an author. I am currently in the works of writing a book, and ultimately plan on uploading it to the publishing website Lulu.com. From there, the information will be sent out to Amazon.com. I also have a deviantART account where I already have several prints ready.
My goal is to form a central hub of information about myself and how to find my art and works. I also plan to use wordpress as a blog to display the art and show snippets of my book to engage readers and buyers. From what I’ve read, bloggers are allowed to sell their products if they are the creator. Also adding an affiliate link to Amazon is allowed.
My question is this: am I allowed to add links to my book on Amazon.com and/or Lulu.com, and links to my art on deviantART, since I am the creator–even though they are not being bought from the blog directly? I do plan to use my blog for its intended purpose as well, by posting pictures of my art and snippets of my book.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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am I allowed to add links to my book on Amazon.com and/or Lulu.com, and links to my art on deviantART, since I am the creator–even though they are not being bought from the blog directly?
Yes.
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As you noted above, There must be a real blog and not just pseudo posts designed to drive traffic to third party sites. The only exceptions to the no affiliate links policy are found here in italics:
Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (“Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). This includes multi-level marketing (MLM) blogs and pyramid schemes. To be clear, people writing their own original book, movie or game reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category. Here is a thread in the support forums that talks more about which affiliate links are OK or not OK. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
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