And there were many occasion similar to this.

For example, I went to test the food at a new joint my team members were raving about. I went to see a place full of fireflies at night after hearing my brother's animated story. And all these prove one important point: relationship sells.

So if you are wondering how buying e book online and affiliate tied up, it's in one word - relationship.

E book has become a commodity.

Maybe I'm over-exaggerate a bit but there's no one on the street whom I talked to haven't heard of e book before. Some folks I knew are obsessive e book buyers. And they are the kind of folks who an e book author or e book publisher loves to have on the list.

Now, just so that you know, e book author or publisher has 2 kinds of list:

1) The buyers list

2) The sellers list

And I can tell you, as an e book store owner myself, I love having both lists but I love the sellers list or the affiliate list more. Why?

Because affiliate often time are buyers themselves (that's a big help to them as you shall see later). And affiliate makes me more sales just like my friend who watch X-Men, my team members who lunch at the new joint, and my brother who went to see the fireflies.

They talked and they convinced people whom I'm yet to know. They reach these people hearts (not just minds) through their existing bonds i.e. relationship. And I can't convince people whom I haven't met.

But they can.

Amazon, one of the World largest online book sellers know this

That's why Amazon attracts affiliates and willing to go the extra miles to help them. The affiliates in return, provide Amazon with ongoing revenue from the people who Amazon could not possibly meet or know.

And relationship makes it all possible

Imagine the cost it incurs for Amazon if it were to sell to each and every person from every corner of the World?

Now, imagine the amount of profit it generates from recruiting a few souls and have them sell for Amazon indirectly. Isn't that sounds like every business owners dreams?

But if it's already a commodity, and thousands are promoting the same thing like e book, how we could be a class above?

Lets look at a popular marketplace for digital products; Clickbank.

Clickbank has more than hundreds and thousands of affiliate ready to promote its products. If an e book (digital product) came into the market, affiliates will literally race to promote it because they want to make money from it and that's what they do.

There's a big possibility that one affiliate will promote the same e book against each other.

That situation is good for Clickbank but could be hazardous to the affiliate. The profit cake has been sliced into smaller pieces, and it gets smaller with increased number of affiliates.

But even so, some affiliates still make a huge killing from stiff competition. What's the reason?

The level of relationship they have with their customers.

Invariably, these affiliates had developed the trust and bond for some times. You know this already. If you had been a subscriber to someone, and you have developed some kind of trust and relationship with the list owner, you can judge for yourself the solution and service they recommend without much prejudice.

And that's important.

If there's a single reason why people prefer to buy e book online from affiliate indirectly and not from a merchant directly, it's because the relationship. And that's the reason if you haven't build a relationship already, you better start one, fast. In the end, you always get more than you asked for.