Hi Iona -- Thanks for checking with Pinky McKay! I forwarded your info to
the mother who first sent asked about the site. She did some looking at
Clickbank and said that there is one thing she can do - and that's remove
her book from clickbank if she's truly concerned about who's promoting her
book and how it's being sold.  She noted, "There are plenty of other ways to
offer affiliations that give the originator full control over who they
associate their name with." Hope that's of use to her.

K



>
> Let me preface this email with a request that we do not click onto the
> breastfeeding child web site. It is a site designed solely to attract
> traffic and thus sell more products of various kinds. The more we visit it
> to see what is on there, the higher their google ratings and the more
> likely
> it is that their questionable information is getting out there.
>
> So, I talked last night to Pinky McKay whose book appears numerous times on
> that dubious breastfeeding child website, and she says :
> "this is DEFINITELY NOT any site of mine - please could you post this on
> lactnet.
>
> I have just been alerted to this site by a mum - as I have listed my ebook
> on clickbank, anyone can affiliate to it.  I listed there so that
> affiliates
> ( genuine people such as midwives/childbirth eds etc who have websites can
> resell and earn 50% commission -I never dreamt an idiot like this would try
> to affiliate) . I simply wanted to allow  breastfeeding info to be easily
> shared and tried this as an alternative to my published books as the
> commission I get of $2 a book is pretty slim pickings and I also have to
> rely on stock being in bookshops which I have no control over -  bookshops
> here are stacked with crappy baby tamer advice eg Gina Ford and Tizzie Hall
> who stuff up so many breastfeeding mums I am seeing as a private LC
> (IBCLC).
> I hate to think people might even imagine this is my site - please alert
> the
> lactnet readers to my real and only site- www.pinkymckay.com.au
>
> Sadly anyone can link to any site and legally there is probably no action I
> can take."
> ****
> So although she knew that once you set up an e-book with the site that
> sells
> it, anybody can become an "affiliate" and can link to the book on their
> sites to boost sales, she has no control over the other content on the
> other
> sites. She has only that one website, and is now going to mark it as her
> "official" site.
>
> In fact Pinky is a highly respected author of parenting books and
> conference
> speaker in Australia, her books are listed with ABA and LLL, and her
> information is about gentle parenting, listening to your baby etc. This
> website is someone trying to cash in on her reputation while "hijacking" it
> at the same time. The risks of using technology while trying to make a
> legitimate living....
>
> Iona Macnab IBCLC
> Tokyo Japan (but an Aussie)
>
>





-- 
Karen Gromada
www.karengromada.com/
http://www.marchforbabies.org/karengromada

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