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Pay-per-conversion Marketing Partnership Program

Dear webmasters,

The following memorandum describes the Nimble Books Pay-Per-Conversion Marketing program. I think it’s a win-win for everyone. If you are interested in participating, write me!

Sincerely,

Fred Zimmerman

Publisher

1. {Website} will set up a new Amazon.com Associate account and tracking id to track sales in this joint venture. {Website} will be payee and account owner and wfz@nimblebooks.com will be added to the account with view privileges.

2. {Website} will be entitled to all Amazon.com referral and other fees generated using this tracking id.

3. Nimble Books LLC will pay {Website} an additional fee (defined below) corresponding to each conversion credited to the “Earnings” report for this tracking id for {Specified Nimble Books Titles and ISBNs}. The purpose of this fee is to give {Website} a strong incentive to make its users aware of the book by making the even more valuable than the default rate.

4. The total monthly fee will be calculated at the end of each month. Any returned copies of the books mentioned above will be deducted from the fee. Only sales converted using the tracked id and visible to Nimble Books in the shared account will be considered.

5. Nimble Books LLC will not be responsible for any fees for any other Amazon.com books or products purchased by {Website} customers using this Amazon.com tracking id.

6. Nimble Books receives monthly payments for book sales from its distributor, Lightning Source Inc., by the 5th of the month 120 days after the books were shipped to Amazon to fulfill customer order.

7. Accordingly, Nimble Books will be responsible for paying {Website} its additional fee by the 15th of the month 120 days after the monthly fee is calculated. E.g., since Nimble Books will receive its payment for January sales from LSI by May 5, 2005, it will pay {Website} by May 15, 2005 for carried out during the month of January 2005.

8. In the unlikely event that LSI (a large, reputable company owned by Ingram, the market leader in book distribution) is late on its payments, Nimble Books will not be responsible to pay until LSI pays. Nimble Books will provide {Website} with appropriate documentation of the late payments.

9. In the unlikely event that LSI defaults on its payments, Nimble Books will not be responsible to pay its additional fees. Nimble Books will provide {Website} with appropriate documentation of the default.

10. This document creates no other rights or responsibilities on the part of {Website} or Nimble Books.

Website:

Nimble Books LLC:

Per-book additional fee: $1.00
Term of this agreement: expires three months after publication of {book}
Effective date: on signature.
Signatures:

W. F. Zimmerman, Publisher, Nimble Books LLC

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Some will see this as an excellent idea for generating the all-important buzz for your book project. Others will this as yet another example of just how far publishing has turned it’s head from literature towards the omnipotent product. Either way, I have to admit this is a pretty damn cool book jacket.

Jared Paul Stern, the embattled New York Post gossip writer accused of trying to extort billionaire Ron Burkle, doesn’t have a book deal. He doesn’t have an agent. And he doesn’t have any details of the book yet. But, as fishbowlNY reports, he’s got a cool Chip Kidd designed book cover.

A writer once told me about a drunken lunch he shared with a powerful magazine editor. This was back in the golden days, when still bothered to publish short stories and when writers could be considered part of a “stable.” Over the course of a three-hour, booze soaked lunch (another bygone from a past age), The Editor devised a short story title. The Editor then dispatched The Writer to create a story to fit the unusual and memorable title.

So, if in the past, a title could come before the work, then maybe it makes sense in today’s visual age to have a cover before the book.


Or not.