No you just have to fill out an application with Amazon.com, I think its mostly to prove to them that your website can turn them a profit if you feature their stuff on it. Then you go into your account and select what items from Amazon.com you want to feature, set up how you want the shop to look, etc. Customers don't pay extra or anything, Amazon just gives a tiny fraction of the sale to the site owner when somebody buys something on their site by getting to it through your site. They also monitor your clickthroughs to see how much traffic you're driving to Amazon.com. Like Cafepress you actually give them your tax info and everything for your paychecks (though also like Cafepress a small site like mine hardly generates anything).
|