I haven't followed the link, because I'm wary of visiting dodgy sites!  However, my guess would be that they scrape titles of books on Amazon and then link to Audible with an affiliate code (if Audible do affiliate links?) and hope that people will buy something else when they're there if the book doesn't have an audio version.

 

Its linking to your stuff on Amazon:

http://  www.amazon.com  /dp/B00CS8YG34/?tag=audioliterate-20

See the affiliate code? They make their money by referring people to amazon to buy your book - totally legit and free advertising for you

 

Ah OK thanks. I see, it's one of those kinds of sites. But I still don't understand where the audio bit fit in? I didn't know it was on Audible, and if it is, how can it be without permission? Or is this an just an extension of the Kindle recording? Part of the Amazon contract?

 

Ah OK thanks. I see, it's one of those kinds of sites. But I still don't understand where the audio bit fit in? I didn't know it was on Audible, and if it is, how can it be without permission? Or is this an just an extension of the Kindle recording? Part of the Amazon contract?

Most likely it's because it was a scraped site: no human eyes involved. They know that saying "audio book" gets clicks, so it's in the script, but they don't check whether any individual book actually has an audio version.

Camille

 

That has to be it. Much thanks all.

 

ps Camille, love your covers! Who does them?

 

ps Camille, love your covers! Who does them?

Thank you -- I do. My work is a little quirky so I decided to make the covers a part of my "brand."

I do some premades for Self-Pub Book Covers as well, and might start doing freelance premades and templates on my own later in the year. (Hmmm, maybe I should add a link to my SPBC inventory in my sig....)

Camille

 

Fantastic, talented you! I might well be interested if you do ever start to do designs for others. Do you have a website?

 

Fantastic, talented you! I might well be interested if you do ever start to do designs for others. Do you have a website?

In my sig... the text part below the images: the book page and my blog, the Daring Novelist. I'm thinking I might have to create little "covers" for those, since people don't notice the text below the covers.

BTW: Here's the link to my portfolio of premades at Self-Pub Book Covers.

 

Thank you. Off to have a look now 

 

Most likely it's because it was a scraped site: no human eyes involved. They know that saying "audio book" gets clicks, so it's in the script, but they don't check whether any individual book actually has an audio version.

Audible has an affiliate program which means that the actual audio version may very well be for sale on the site. If you are an Amazon Associate (and you should be if you have your own author website so that you can get the commission in addition to the sale of your own books) you will see the link to audible.com in the lower left hand sidebar of your associates page listed under "other affiliate programs".

At one time, Amazon aided in the "scraping" of content by releasing their API for use in developing plugins that allowed users to find products by type so that they could create a webite about a certain topic and then offer relevant products. There were, and probably are still, some sleazy uses for that method, but I know someone who has a passion for gardening and used one of these plugins to help support his gardening blog.

He was spending a fair amount of money on the blog to test organic fertilizers and such and then report his results and he hired out a photographer to keep things looking good. He has since closed down the site because he wasn't able to make enough income to keep it going even though a lot of people visited the site. It is a shame because he provided excellent, balanced information.

Wonder if ACX promotion sites doing something similar to Bookbub would be the next big thing.