Geez, thanks to joebar's massive order two weeks ago we're already up
above fifty bucks for the quarter...
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/local/fork-books.html
is still way behind from the recommendations I've seen on the list
lately. It's hard to keep up with peoples' recommendations...
> From associates@amazon.com Mon Aug 17 04:14:25 1998
> To: adam@cs.caltech.edu
> Subject: Amazon.com Associates - weekly activity report
>
> Weekly Activity Report for l_weekly/forkrecommendedr
>
> Quarter-to-date Items Ordered: 48
> Quarter-to-date Qualified Item Revenue: 706.78
> Quarter-to-date Referral Fees: 51.75
>
> Click-throughs and sales by individual item
> For the week of 09-Aug-1998 through 15-Aug-1998
> Store ID forkrecommendedr
>
> ORDERED YOUR
> ITEM CODE HITS DIR. NDIR FEE TITLE
> ---------- ------ ----- ----- ------- --------------------------------------
> 0471930326 28 Satellite Communications Systems :
> 0471971669 19 Satelite Communications Systems, T
> 0240802799 11 Communication Technology Update
> 155828592X 11 Xml : A Primer
> 0789714086 9 Using XML
> 1565923499 8 Xml : Principles, Tools, and Techn
> 0812928342 7 Cyber Rights : Defending Free Spee
> 0932633072 7 General Principles of Systems Desi
> 1575213966 6 Teach Yourself Xml in 21 Days (Tea
> 0079137024 5 Xml Complete (McGraw-Hill Complete
> 076450360X 5 Xml for Dummies (For Dummies)
> 0130811521 4 The Xml Handbook (Charles F. Goldf
> 0136168221 4 Designing Xml Internet Application
> B000007NDA 3 Stunt
> 1 0 0.59 sold at 30% off list price of 16.97
> 0135199840 3 Sgml on the Web : Small Steps Beyo
> 0139601627 3 Xml by Example : Building E-Commer
> 0761515356 3 Hand on Xml
> 0764503839 3 Xml for Dummies Quick Reference (F
> 0764531999 3 Xml : Extensible Markup Language
> 1556155514 3 Writing Solid Code : Microsoft's T
> 1575213346 3 Presenting Xml
> 1861001525 3 Professional XML Programmer's Refe
> B000009NTL 3 Severe Tire Damage
> B000002LU8 2 Gordon
> 1 0 0.59 sold at 30% off list price of 16.97
> B000009OGW 2 Whitechocolatespaceegg [EXPLICIT L
> 1 0 0.51 sold at 40% off list price of 16.97
> 0195095995 2 At Home in the Universe : The Sear
> 0195111303 2 At Home in the Universe : The Sear
> 0198537379 2 The Sgml Handbook
> 0312094663 2 Dazed and Confused : Inspiredby th
> 0312133456 2 Before Sunrise
> 0385267746 2 The Design of Everyday Things
> 0517542099 2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gala
> 1556225873 2 Practical Guide to SGML/XML Filter
> 0465016901 1 The Drama of the Gifted Child : Th
> 2 0 3.00 sold at 20% off list price of 12.50
> 0192860925 1 The Selfish Gene
> 1 0 1.55 sold at 20% off list price of 12.95
> B000002605 1 Voices Carry
> 1 0 0.57 sold at 4% off list price of 11.97
> B000002VR9 1 Strangest Places
> 1 0 0.65 sold at 23% off list price of 16.97
> 0060926430 1 A People's History of the United S
> 0060926910 1 An Intimate History of Humanity
> 0070043574 1 Computer Structures: Readings and
> 0070498873 1 Implementing CDF Channels (Hands-O
> 0136422993 1 Structuring Xml Documents (Charles
> 0136815111 1 Sgml Buyer's Guide : A Unique Guid
> 0140232370 1 Insanely Great : The Life and Time
> 014025997X 1 The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Compa
> 0201600196 1 BUGS in Writing: A Guide to Debugg
> 0385199570 1 The Stand (The Complete and Uncut
> 0385312105 1 Hackers; Heroes of the Computer Re
> 0385312113 1 The God Particle : If the Universe
> 0521466490 1 Design Paradigms : Case Histories
> 0525244581 1 The Tao of Pooh
> 0553211404 1 Jane Eyre
> 0606016929 1 Night
> 0670868884 1 Sex on the Brain : The Biological
> 0673188647 1 Steve Jobs : The Journey Is the Re
> 0679410384 1 Maus (Boxed Set)
> 0679448624 1 The Accidental Asian : Notes of a
> 0679734155 1 The Pencil : A History of Design a
> 0679735720 1 Time's Arrow : Or the Nature of th
> 0684802031 1 First Things First : To Live, to L
> 0688128165 1 Influence : The Psychology of Pers
> 0762701455 1 The Traveler's Handbook
> 0792399439 1 The SGML FAQ Book : Understanding
> 0822009641 1 100 Years of Solitude (Notes)
> 0887307175 1 Crossing the Chasm : Marketing and
> 0887308554 1 Accidental Empires : How the Boys
> 0890876517 1 Creative Companion : How to Free Y
> 0890877785 1 The Magic Cottage Address Book by
> 0961392126 1 Visual Explanations : Images and Q
> 155553001X 1 The Autobiography of Andrew Carneg
> 1565922492 1 Windows Nt File System Internals :
> B000000WF0 1 Urban Hymns
> B00000638Q 1 Before These Crowded Streets
> B000006OB4 1 Dr. Dolittle
> B000007OED 1 Life Won't Wait
> B000007SAV 1 The Dirty Boogie
> B000007TE8 1 Hello Nasty
> B000008UUH 1 The Boy Is Mine
> 0070571317 0 The Complete Sailor : Learning the
> 0 1 0.64 sold at 20% off list price of 15.95
> 0553560735 0 Red Mars
> 0 1 0.28 sold at 20% off list price of 6.99
> 0679740635 0 The Handbook of Sailing
> 0 1 1.04 sold at 20% off list price of 26.00
> 0791036812 0 Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesma
> 0 1 0.20 sold at 20% off list price of 4.95
> 0812035399 0 Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Fiv
> 0 1 0.16 sold at 20% off list price of 3.95
> 0822002566 0 Brave New World and Brave New Worl
> 0 1 0.20 sold at 20% off list price of 4.95
> 0822002965 0 Catch-22 Notes
> 0 1 0.20 sold at 20% off list price of 4.95
> 0822008998 0 1984
> 0 1 0.20 sold at 20% off list price of 4.95
> 1573226289 0 Sex and Sunsets
> 0 1 0.48 sold at 20% off list price of 12.00
> B0000064EX 0 Happy Heroes [EP]
> 0 1 0.24 sold at 30% off list price of 6.97
> B000006PCW 0 Live Noise
> 0 1 0.65 sold at 19% off list price of 15.97
> ---------- ------ ----- ----- ------- -----------------------------------
> Totals: 219 8 11 $ 11.76
>
>
> ISBN/ASIN home page search other
> --------------------- ----------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
> Number of Visitors on 09-Aug-1998 8 0 0 0
> Number of Visitors on 10-Aug-1998 21 0 0 0
> Number of Visitors on 11-Aug-1998 22 0 1 0
> Number of Visitors on 12-Aug-1998 10 0 0 0
> Number of Visitors on 13-Aug-1998 23 0 0 0
> Number of Visitors on 14-Aug-1998 16 0 0 0
> Number of Visitors on 15-Aug-1998 4 0 0 0
> --------------------- ----------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
> Total Visitors this week 104 0 1 0
>
>
> HOW TO READ THIS ACTIVITY REPORT
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ITEMS HIT AND ORDERED
> ---------------------
> The column labeled "HITS" represents the number of times one of your
> visitors clicked on your link to this item. This column can help you
> gauge your visitors' interest in the books you are recommending.
>
> NOTE: Zero hits is a perfectly normal result! It usually means that
> the item was ordered by somebody who followed your link to our home
> page, used your Amazon.com search box or followed your link directly
> to another recommended item and then ordered this item as they browsed
> through our site. In a few cases, it might mean that the customer
> added the item to their shopping basket during a visit from you during
> a prior week and only just finalized their order.
>
> The two columns beneath the heading "ORDERED" are labeled "DIR." and
> "NDIR" - these columns show you the number of copies ordered for each
> listed item during the week. Note that the item's title appears on a
> separate line above the hits and order quantities.
>
> The "DIR." column refers to directly linked items - the individual
> products you recommended to your visitors. If a visitor follows your
> link to one of these items and then places the item in their shopping
> basket on the resulting web page, the quantity they order will appear
> in this column. Items in this column earn either 5% or 15% referral
> fees, depending on their selling price and whether they are books or
> other, non-book products.
>
> The "NDIR" column refers to all other items that your visitors added
> to their shopping baskets during their visit. This includes any item
> ordered during a visit that begins when somebody follows your link to
> our home page or uses the Amazon.com search box on your site. If you
> provide only these kinds of links then all resulting orders would show
> up in this column. Items in this column earn 5% of their selling
> price.
>
> The column labeled "REFERRAL FEE" represents the referral fees your site
> has earned on orders. Please remember that we pay you based on orders
> *shipped*, so your actual Referral Fee may be somewhat lower than the
> fee stated here.
>
> Only after these orders are paid for and shipped will they actually
> count toward your referral fee. Some of these orders may later be
> cancelled, customers' credit cards may be declined and occasional
> returns should be expected; in any of these cases, the referral fee
> will not be earned.
>
> VISITOR COUNTS
> --------------
> A "Visitor" is a person who clicks on book links from your site, and
> is counted as 1 visitor (above) regardless of the number of different
> titles they click on. We keep track of this by watching their
> shopping basket ID, which remains the same for every book they click
> on. There are 3 columns in the visitor count section:
>
> The "ISBN/ASIN" column shows you the number of unique visitors who
> followed one or more of your links to specific items during the week.
> The "amz home" column shows you the number who followed your link to
> the Amazon.com home page during the week. Lastly, the "search" column
> contains visitors who used your Amazon.com search box.
>
> IMPORTANT NOTES REGARDING VISITORS:
>
> 1) Visitors are unique within each column, but the same visitor will
> be represented in EACH column that applies. As an example, if only
> one visitor used your links during the week but used both your search
> box and a link to a specific item, the report would show 1 visitor in
> each of those columns.
>
> 2) A "Hit" is any person clicking on a book link, and each click is
> counted as 1 hit. If the same visitor clicks on 5 different titles,
> we record 1 visitor in the "ISBN/ASIN" column and 5 hits. Therefore,
> you should expect the number of visitors to be lower than the total
> number of hits in most cases.
>
>
> Thanks again for your participation in the Amazon.com Associates
> program. Have a great week!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tom Schonhoff
> Amazon.com Associates Program
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