Blackwells the bookshop

I just signed up with blackells www.blackwells.co.uk

Anyone makin' money with them? any good?

There appears to be no online stats...
Lookin' around theres surprisingly little decent book programs.. amazon seem to be getting more expensive and whs are "pigs" to deal with.

I had a long look at Blackwells the other day, and the lack of stats was what eventually put me off.

They have an excellent search function for affiliates to use which outputs the results in a plain text format which looks ideal for manipulating with php or asp.

Blackwells are also with Perfilliate, which does have real time stats, but I don't think it's possible to use deep linking.


Another book shop I had a good look at is Hammicks, who have an independent program in addition to the to specialised ones they have with Tradedoubler. They provide free content such as reviews and top 10 lists, but again they don't appear to have any online stats. The hammicks program is at www.newbookreviews.co.uk/

You're right, there are few good book affiliate programs that pay a reasonable rate of commission.

Amazon.co.uk are fantastic in terms of reliability and customer support, but 5% on a book is not going to make anybody rich...

What do you get in terms of stats. with Blackwells and Hammicks? Do they provide any of the following: click-thrus, purchases, titles of products sold, total commission due etc.?

Anything's got to be better than WHSmith who now have no online stats. whatsoever and who we have to write approx. ten emails to every quarter to finally get our cheque.

I believe theres no stats at all.
I did email them, must be almost a week now and no reply.

I never got round to putting any links up and there support is not encouraging me much.

If this helps anyone its a simple php parser for there text-delimited db stuff. Have'nt tested it but should work in theory.


// $readfile = file("http://search.blackwell.co.uk/servlet/search?isbn=0140244913");

// list ($fields[0],$fields[1],$fields[3],$fields[4],$fields[5],$fields[6],$fields[7],$fields[8]) = split ('|', $readfile);

// print("ISBN: $fields[0] Author: $fields[1] Title: $fields[3] Price: $fields[4] Avaliabilty: $fields[5] URL: $fields[6] P&P $fields[7] Type: $fields[8]");

2 weeks later...."Thanks for your query. Unfortunately we don't have the functionality to offer stats online and so send out monthly reports instead -detailing a sales breakdown for you."

we don't have the functionality or we dont wanna spend any money?

Although an honest reply, it shows a very low investment level for there program, so I dont think Im gonna bother.