Summary

Waterstones.com is the online home of Waterstones, the UK’s leading high street book specialist. Books are our passion as well as our business so we like to think we’re a bit different from the rest.

Payments

Attribution Period (Cookie Length)

14 Days

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Waterstones Affiliate Programme

 

Waterstones.com is the online home of Waterstones, the UK’s leading high street book specialist. Books are our passion as well as our business so we like to think we’re a bit different from the rest.

So why work with Waterstones.com, in a nutshell?

  • We’re specialists: We’re the leading book specialist, books are what we know and love and we’ve got millions of titles in our online store.
  • We’re competitive: We’re more competitive on price than you might think, with a series of rolling promotions on new and classic books with great savings.
  • We’re service-led: We offer the same personal service online as we do in our stores and we offer free delivery to any Waterstones shop or for orders over £25 to any UK address.

Waterstones.com not only provides affiliate partners with a known and trusted alternative to other book sites, we run a strong campaign with generous commissions and regular bonus incentives.

  • Publishers will have two commission groups, 4% for new customers and 1% for existing
  • A 14 day cookie period
  • Commission is processed 28 days after shipment date
  • No cashback or commission will be paid on our Click & Collect service, gift cards (other exclusions may apply)
  • A range of ready-made creative (and bespoke banners upon request)
  • Please note Waterstones do not wish to work with Voucher code sites

PPC Terms:

  • We don’t allow affiliates to bid on terms like 'Waterstones', ‘waterstone’s’ or any derivative or misspellings of the brand name on any search engine.
  • We also don’t allow our affiliates to link any paid ads directly to our website or use variants on the Waterstones.com URL.
  • We are rather strict about all of this and will exclude any affiliates from the programme that do not comply.
  • Any publisher that has been granted permission to run Google Shopping ads must NOT bid on the term Waterstones and must negatively match the brand term Waterstones for any activity.

So why wait? Start promoting Waterstones.com today.