[Amazon] What your fellow FoRKers are buying.

I Find Karma (adam@cs.caltech.edu)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:12:05 -0700


I do wish Amazon would send clickable URLs along with the list of weekly
orders so we could just go to the recent buys directly instead of having
to search for them at the Amazon site.

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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