One final post from me on the thread (unless responding to queries). We've decided to drop the £20 author registration fee. Once publication is agreed there will be no fees for the author; file conversion etc will be free. This is on our website blog, but for reference I've pasted the message below:
It has been a busy week so far for the Book Sanctuary Team; we’ve been attending events at the Edinburgh Book Festival, as well as receiving initial feedback since our launch on Monday. One key message that we have picked up from feedback and events at the book festival is that money flows
to the author. It is with that in mind that we have decided to drop the proposed £20 fee for author registration; if publication is agreed with an author the conversion of their files to eBooks, as well as hosting on the website, will have no cost. The author will now incur no financial cost at all while retaining the promised 50% net profit as royalties.
This decision was taken following feedback from our initial posts on some forums this week, so our thanks for these comments. This site is for authors, to help them share their writing with an online community; the primary goal of this site is to develop that community and act as a hub for literary debate and sharing of new writing.
For those that would like the service we will have a comprehensive proof reading option, pricing will be confirmed in the coming days. In addition, we have an experienced audio transcriber in our team and we will be offering this as a service. If you have something that you have dictated onto a recording, we will be able to produce a typed transcript of that recording for you. Alternatively if you have a hand written hard copy of an article, we can type this for you. If you have any interest in these services please email
enquiries@booksanctuary.co.uk for an initial discussion.
Finally, we have our first three registered users on the site, a landmark for Book Sanctuary. I’d like to welcome our new users and we hope they’re enjoying their eBook copies of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. In the coming days and weeks we will be committed to building the Book Sanctuary community on our forum and social networking sites.
Please keep checking our blog, as more is on the way!
Warmest regards,
Book Sanctuary Team