The O'Reilly Affiliate Program

By Vasudev Ram

Dear readers,

In a recent post, i.e.:

50% off on all O'Reilly books in Back to (Tech) School Sale ,

I said that I had recently become an O'Reilly Affiliate under their Affiliate marketing program, and that I would write more about it in a later post. This is that post.

The O'Reilly Affiliate Program is an affiliate marketing program from O'Reilly Media, a leading publisher of computer and related books. Under this program, web site publishers, such as bloggers, can apply to become O'Reilly affiliates. The affiliate program is in partnership with Commission Junction, a large affiliate network.

If the blogger's application to be an O'Reilly affiliate is approved, they can then sign up to become a member of Commission Junction (CJ). After that they can promote various products of O'Reilly, such as books, ebooks and videos, on their blog via banner or text links (for which they can get the HTML code from the CJ site, under the section for O'Reilly), and if a reader clicks through to the linked O'Reilly product page and buys a product, the blogger receives a commission from O'Reilly Media via CJ.

Here is an excerpt from the O'Reilly Affiliates Program web page:

[ Our web site offers over 3,000 different products from O'Reilly as well as other leading technology publishers, such as Microsoft Press, No Starch, Wiley, Wrox, Site Point, Dummies, Sybex, and more. O'Reilly's unique ebook and video offering is DRM-free, meaning that customers own the electronic products they purchase. They also own them in multiple formats, have lifetime access, and receive free updates ]

And here are the full details about the O'Reilly Affiliate program.

My own experience of signing up to be a CJ member and then getting the HTML code for the sale was fairly straightforward; I did not encounter any major issues. The CJ site seems well-designed and implemented, in general.

I hope readers who are interested in the O'Reilly affiliate program found this information useful.

Finally, a reminder: the O'Reilly 50% off sale (for all their ebooks), is on until 10 September 2013. So make the most of it :-) (affiliate link).






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50% off on all O'Reilly books in Back to (Tech) School Sale

By Vasudev Ram

O'Reilly Media is conducting a sale - 50% off on the price of all O'Reilly books. The sale is on until 10 September 2013.

They are calling it the "Back to (Tech) School Sale".

You can click on the banner above to go to the site for the O'Reilly books sale.

Disclosure: it is an affiliate link, so I will get a small percentage of the sale value, since I recently became an O'Reilly Media affiliate under their Affiliates program for bloggers. More on that in a follow-up post, but let me say for now to my readers, that I'll use the affiliate feature judiciously, so as not to clutter up my blog with too many ads.

I also took a look at the sale site myself. It was interesting to see the variety of books (*) on display (many of which I have bought and read in the past), and also the fact that the O'Reilly book "Learning Python" was among the bestsellers shown.

(*) They do have a large variety and number of books. I have been buying and reading O'Reilly books for many years now, almost from the start of my career, so I've seen that they have books for many of the popular programming languages, such as C, C++, Python, Java, Scala, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, etc., as well as books on many other programming, system administration, web design and other computer topics.

There are 7000 titles on sale.

This is a good opportunity to pick up some good O'Reilly books at half the cost.

And if you're an author or aspiring author yourself, you may wish to check out my xtopdf toolkit for PDF creation from other file formats. xtopdf includes a few tools for creating PDF ebooks, such as PDFBook.py, which lets you create a PDF ebook from a set of chapters stored in text files, and XMLtoPDFBook.py, which lets you create a PDF ebook from a set of chapters stored in XML format. xtopdf is released as open source software under the BSD License, so it is free for any use, commercial or non-commercial.

Packt Publishing of the UK/India uses xtopdf in their book production workflow, and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) of the USA uses xtopdf for their e-discovery work (as I've been told by people from Packt and SFLC respectively). xtodf is written in Python and uses the open source version of the Reportlab toolkit.

Here is a guide to installing and using xtopdf, which can help you get started with creating PDF books using it.

Here are two posts about XMLtoPDFBook:

Create PDF books with XMLtoPDFBook.

XMLtoPDFBook now supports chapter numbers and names.

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