AdSense and Amazon

Do They "Compete" or What?

[Atomic]

I am running AdSense on a few sites but we also want to post links to books with our referral in them. I notice that AdSense says you can't have ads from a competing service and I am unclear about if this means you can't run anything that could be considered an ad. We run a column on one site where the author includes his affiliate information in the links to books he recommends for additinal reading material and I hate to think that that puts us in violation.

Can somebody help me out with how broad this "competing ads" should be interpreted.

Thanks
Atomic

[kodaks]

Affiliate preograms are fine, adsense just doesn't want you to have another text ad serving likewise company.

[hunderdown]

I had been an Amazon Associate for years when I joined AdSense. I asked them to confirm that I could have text-based links to books on Amazon on the same page as AdSense code and they said "yes." The fact that the Amazon links don't LOOK like AdSense is key.

[Atomic]

Thanks for the information. You all confirmed what I suspected but it's nice to be a little more certain.

Atomic