> From associates@amazon.com Sun Sep 21 14:46:30 1997
> To: adam@cs.caltech.edu
> Subject: Amazon.com Associates - weekly activity report
>
> Weekly sales report: 14-Sep-97 through 20-Sep-97
>
> Last Week's Sales Results
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Note: This report includes a column labeled "ORDERED", which is
> the weekly number of copies for which orders have been placed through
> your special links. 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.
>
> The column labeled "HITS" represents the number of times one of your
> visitors clicked on a book (this column can help you gauge your
> visitors' interest in the books you are selling).
>
> 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.
>
> Look for special notices in the titles listed below. They can help
> you understand which referral fee rate applied to the order or
> identify certain problems with the link format you may be using.
>
> **1** indicates that this item is currently being featured at a discount
> of over 30%.
>
> **2** indicates that this item is special order or carries no discount
>
> Other notes may indicate problems with a link format or items no longer
> carried in our catalog.
>
>
> Quarter-to-date Books Ordered: 9
> Quarter-to-date Qualified Book Revenue: 287.13
> Quarter-to-date Referral Fees: 20.58
>
>
> Click-throughs and sales by individual book
> For the week of 14-Sep-97 through 20-Sep-97
> Store ID forkrecommendedr
>
> YOUR
> ISBN HITS ORDERED FEE TITLE
> ------------ ---- ------- ------ ---------------------------------------
> 0020868308 1 0 0.00 **2** Mere Christianity : a revised and
> 0029081025 1 0 0.00 The End of Racism : Principles for a Mu
> 0077079574 1 0 0.00 **2** Business Objects : Delivering Coo
> 0198247044 1 0 0.00 **2** How the Laws of Physics Lie
> 0201406497 1 0 0.00 Darwin Among the Machines : The Evoluti
> 0201409496 1 0 0.00 The Microsoft Way : The Real Story of H
> 0201600196 1 0 0.00 Bugs in Writing : A Guide to Debugging
> 020162236X 1 0 0.00 Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions
> 0312094663 1 0 0.00 Dazed and Confused
> 0312133456 1 0 0.00 **2** Before Sunrise
> 0312381859 1 0 0.00 History of Pi
> 0345373162 1 1 1.55 A History of Knowledge : Past, Present
> 1 sold at 20% off list price of 12.95
> 0385267746 1 0 0.00 The Design of Everyday Things
> 0385312113 1 0 0.00 The God Particle : If the Universe Is t
> 0395558492 1 0 0.00 **2** The God Particle : If the Univers
> 0465081797 1 0 0.00 Sperm Wars : The Science of Sex
> 0471121045 1 0 0.00 Against the Gods : The Remarkable Story
> 0471958697 2 0 0.00 **2** Pattern-Oriented Software Archite
> 0521386039 2 0 0.00 **2** Computation and Human Experience
> 055305340X 1 0 0.00 A Brief History of Time : From the Big
> 0670868884 1 0 0.00 Sex on the Brain : The Biological Diffe
> 0679425632 1 0 0.00 Why Things Bite Back : Technology and t
> 0679456996 1 0 0.00 The First $20 Million Is Always the Har
> 0679746048 1 0 0.00 Girl, Interrupted
> 0688128165 1 0 0.00 Influence : The Psychology of Persuasio
> 0786863137 1 0 0.00 Brain Droppings
> 0802725759 5 1 1.67 Mere Christianity
> 1 sold at 20% off list price of 13.95
> 087220149X 1 0 0.00 **2** What Is This Thing Called Science
> ------------ ---- ------- ------ ---------------------------------------
> Totals: 34 2 3.22
>
> --------------------- ---------- -------
> Number of Visitors on 14-Sep-97 2
> Number of Visitors on 15-Sep-97 2
> Number of Visitors on 16-Sep-97 5
> Number of Visitors on 17-Sep-97 1
> Number of Visitors on 18-Sep-97 2
> Number of Visitors on 19-Sep-97 8
> Number of Visitors on 20-Sep-97 0
> --------------------- ---------- -------
> Total Visitors this week 20
>
> NOTE: 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.
>
> 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 and 5 hits. Therefore, you should expect the
> number of visitors to be lower than the total number of hits.
>
> Thanks again for your participation in the Amazon.com Associates
> program. Have a great week!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Shawn Haynes
> Amazon.com Books Associates Program
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