I was always a bit confused by this. When you apply to an affiliate program like say for example, a dating site like LavaLife or Matchmaker, must you put their affiliate links only on your website? Or can you put the affiliate links in your ebook which you can distribute outside of your website? For example, if I wrote an ebook on dating and put affiliate links in there saying 'Join so and so' and I emailed the book out to people on my e-mail list where they can just click and download, is that ok? Or do affiliate programs demand that your affiliate links only be posted on your website and nowhere else?
I guess there's nothing wrong with that. Maybe you could indicate in your aff.link that it's an aff.link, so that your readers knew that.
Man i have full links in my sold EBooks...so thats not a big problem keeping affiliate links in EBooks...you will earn money though....
Dude, that is just a must for every affiliate marketer, your ebook, if it's damn good, will be spread around the net for free and you will get free promotion. I made a lots of sales using free ebooks.