Great idea; I especially approve of it in O'Reilly's case, since they've been so gracious (see The Word from O'Reilly; thanks d4vis too!)

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

neophyte

Is there any way Perlmonks could get credit for other (non-Perl) books? I buy a lot of books through Fatbrain, but not all of them are Perl (mostly because I already own the Perl ones).

In theory if you go to the buy stuff page there's a search form for fat brain. In theory if you search through there we should get credited for any books you buy in that session. Our affiliate id is transferred in the url on the search and a cookie gets set with a session id which hopefully maintains that information since it isn't passed in the url after that. If you try it let me know and I'll check if we get credit for that purchase.

vroom | Tim Vroom | vroom@cs.hope.edu

Okay, I tried it out. I watched the links and cookies as I went, and you are right - the affiliation ID disappears after the first page- hopefully it is stored in their "cookie jar" on their server (at least they are doing things the correct way, unlike many (most?) sites). Let's see if this works!

I also noticed that you can enter a "discount code" after you place the order and log in as a returning customer. Perhaps perlmonks could get a code to use there as well?

I also noticed while poking around (tip of the hat to ybic) that the Buy Stuff page has an affiliation "From" for the book links and the "Quick Search" box, but not for the "More Info" and "Related Titles" hyperlink. I might humbly suggest that we give perlmonks credit for people clicking these links as well, if it tracks as the search box does.

Final update: it works! You can use the search link to buy any book at Fatbrain, and perlmonks gets the credit.

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