Books pay out good dividends when you consider this area for an affiliate marketing program. Large national bookstores, such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble have affiliate marketing programs that you can join free of charge. You do have to apply to the program and meet the requirements with a website and when you are accepted you will receive the instructions as to how you can get the proper HTML code for each book your want to refer your readers to buy.

The Internet is a wealth of information about all kinds of affiliate marketing programs, but the book selling programs represent a specialty niche for which there are many potential customers. If you are an avid reader, you can develop your passion for reading into a money-making venture simply by setting up a website. The only cost will be the web hosting, but you do have to invest time into making this venture work. One possible idea would be to offer free book reviews of best selling books. At the end of the review, you can have the code that will present a picture of the cover of the book and a link where your readers can order the book - new or used. Each book sold by a referral from your website earns you a commission.

Another potential idea for making money from a book affiliate marketing program relates to the field of education. Teachers spend a lot of time and money trying to find good teacher resources to help them with their planning needs and in helping them come up with exciting project ideas for the students. With articles about topics related to teaching and books that teachers can use, you will be able to earn money from your website.

This is not a get rich quick scheme and it will take time for you to build up to getting high ratings in the search engines. However, many people who stick with affiliate marketing are realizing a substantial second income.