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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Like I said, I don't know the hassle and expense to get an account with a credit card company to get an account for accepting "real" credit cards-- I just know that there is some non-trivial barrier to entry, and is in fact one of the main reasons Paypal was created (I've been using it since it was called X.com.) And I don't know how many potential buyers there are that are willing to use "real" credit cards on-line but not Paypal. It might be a bad business decision for him to not accept credit cards for all I know-- or it might be on the wrong side of the law of diminishing returns.
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And again, there are other services to get this, google has one that hasn't had the backlash of paypal. PayPal isn't the only service of this type.
Other ways to accept other forms of payment, smashwords and those type of small publishing houses. He is also leaving out iTunes and B&N and Borders, and a bunch of others.
He doesn't have to take credit cards, he doesn't have to do any of these things. However, to set a very high goal (10,000 units of a book that most fans have), is not realistic without using all the resources available to move that book. All I am trying to point out is every assumption and choice comes at a cost, both current and future.
--Carl