Return-Path: Resent-From: Philip Greenspun Resent-To: philg@homepage.lcs.mit.edu From: associates@amazon.com Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:30:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: buglet.amazon.com: tom set sender to associates@amazon.com using -f To: philg@MIT.EDU Subject: Amazon.com Associates - quarterly payment report Dear Amazon.com Associate, September 30, 1997 marked the end of the 3rd calendar quarter of 1997, and today it's time for referral fee payments to our Associates. Earlier today, we mailed you a check for the referral fees you've earned during the past quarter. This message explains how we derived the amount of your referral fee check and lists the qualifying books that were paid for and shipped from July 1, 1997 through September 30, 1997. ------------------- PLEASE READ THESE IMPORTANT NOTES: ------------------- 1. It is normal to expect that your total payment may not match the total of your weekly marketing reports. Some books ordered during the quarter may not have been shipped by September 30, and therefore would not appear in this quarter's payment nor on this report. These include: A. Orders placed late in the quarter and not yet shipped. B. Orders containing special order titles that had not yet arrived at our warehouse. C. Any orders cancelled by the customer before shipping. 2. Once these books are shipped, they will appear in the statement for the quarter in which they are shipped. All fees are paid at the end of the quarter in which the shipment is sent to the customer, not the quarter in which the order is placed. 3. If you earned less than $10 in referral fees through the prior quarter (which ended 3 months ago), you would not have received a check at that time. In that case, you will see the unpaid amount included in the report below and added into this quarter's payment. 4. Each line of the report lists the book title and the *total* amount we've collected from customers for shipments of that title. In other words, there is one line per title regardless of the number of copies shipped during the quarter. 5. Some of you may still have a few orders that were placed prior to June 2 which shipped during the 3rd quarter and would thus be included on this report. Prior to June 2, our standard book discount was 10% off on the 400,000 most popular titles in our catalog. Books ordered at 10% off list price during that period earned 15% referral fees, while books ordered at discounts of 20% or 30% earned 5% fees. Books ordered at 40% off, special order books and others ordered at list price also earned 5% fees. 6. Effective June 2, we changed our standard book discount from 10% off to 20% off on paperbacks and 30% off on hardcover books. At that time, we also changed the Associates Program so that books ordered after June 1 at 20-30% off would earn 15% referral fees just as they had when their standard discount was 10% off. As before, books ordered at 40% off, special order books and others ordered at list price earned 5% fees. Out of print books do not qualify for referral fees. Quarterly Referral Fees Paid ---------------------------- Store name: photo.net Store ID: photonet Payee: Name: Angell Memorial Animal Hospital Address1: c/o Philip Greenspun Address2: 5 Irving Terrace #3 Address3: City: Cambridge State: MA Zip: 02138 Country: USA Total shipped to customer this quarter: 5276.27 Referral fee this quarter: 676.07 Credit referral fee previous quarter: 0.00 Total Referral fee: 676.07 From July 1st, 1997 to September 30th, 1997 In-prints books discounted at 10-30% (when ordered) ISBN Title Amount ---- ----- ------ 0060987049 Microserfs 20.80 0136142311 Oracle Sql High-Performance Tuning 39.96 0201447878 The Practical Sql Handbook : Using St 63.92 0385267061 On Photography 10.36 067944386X The Rich Are Different 14.00 0806995270 John Hedgecoe's Figure & Form : Photo 34.94 0811807622 The Body : Photographs of the Human F 23.96 0817440526 John Shaw's Closeups in Nature 18.00 0817450068 Nature Photographer's Complete Guide 162.00 0823049752 Photography 163.20 082306459X Graphis Nudes 63.92 0874778476 Seven Years in Tibet 20.72 0879857595 Kodak Professional Photoguide 886.52 0879857641 Copying and Duplicating : Photographi 23.96 0899330169 Vermont Atlas & Gazetteer 23.74 0899332544 New Hampshire Atlas and Gazetteer 11.87 0936262389 Infrared Photography Handbook 219.56 1558603239 Joe Celko's Sql for Smarties : Advanc 31.96 1562765302 Database Backed Web Sites : The Think 1535.36 1562765302 Database Backed Web Sites; The Thinki 23.99 1564585034 Prague (Eyewitness Travel Guides) 36.72 1565922573 Mastering Regular Expressions : Power 23.96 1565922689 Oracle Design (Nutshell Handbook) 31.96 1566910331 New Zealand Handbook (4th Edition) 191.52 1566910358 Costa Rica Handbook (2nd Ed) 191.52 1568843224 About Face : The Essentials of User I 23.99 1860110150 Prague : Cadogan City Guides (3rd Ed) 31.92 188332338X Czech & Slovak Republics Guide 54.24 2061569072 Michelin Green Guide : New England (7 144.00 -------- Total shipped: 4122.57 Referral fee (at 15%): 618.39 From July 1st, 1997 to September 30th, 1997 Other in-prints books ISBN Title Amount ---- ----- ------ 0201565455 The Sql Guide to Oracle 36.75 0240800265 Basic Photographic Materials and Proc 539.40 024080158X View Camera Technique 314.65 0240802519 The Hasselblad Manual : A Comprehensi 54.95 0262011530 Structure and Interpretation of Compu 60.00 0911515003 The Permanence and Care of Color Phot 88.00 1885559011 Passage to Vietnam/Book and Cd-Rom 59.95 -------- Total shipped: 1153.70 Referral fee (at 5%): 57.69 ------ Thanks again for participating in the Amazon.com Associates Program, and have a great next quarter! Sincerely, Shawn Haynes Amazon.com Books Associates Program P.S. If you have any questions about your report, please refer to the notes at the top of this message. There you'll find answers to all the questions we've been asked in the past about our quarterly financial reports and how they differ from the weekly marketing reports we send to you by email. We've also explained the changes resulting from our new lower prices, which took effect on June 2.