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Kory
If you are going to offer a member ship to your web site you will need to provide value to your subscribers. If you manage that then I would sell your e-books for 100% of the profit on your site. At the same time You could also offer your e-books individually on a site like click bank with a 75% affiliate commission that links the purchaser back to your paid member site.

I hope this helps

There is a package offered by amember.com that allows you to handle all the membership/registration/sales/premium sections stuff. Price is $150 and it's all php stuff. There email support is pretty bad, but they do have a fairly active user forum.

Personally I would (and do) offer 75% recurring commissions to affiliates. You want to attract the absolute best affiliates you can and you do that by giving them as much as you possibly can. Very few people will promote you for 75% of a $10 commission but *loads* will for 75% of a recurring $10 commission.

At the end of the day it makes no difference to you. You do the same amount of work whether you have those extra members or not (barring support I guess) so every referal you get is just money in the bank.

Angela Edwards and I run a backlink membership site where we show people how to get 30 high PR backlinks every month. We charge $5 a month for it, which works out to be $4.50 after PayPal fees and *still* give away 75% of the original fee to our affiliates ($3.75) which means we make just 75c per person.

Why do we do it? Because every new member is money in the bank and every new member is another potential affiliate or may know someone who is. Plus of course we're working on great backend material to sell to these proven customers, which really ramps up how profitable the site is.