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Old 09-18-2010, 07:33 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by MrPLD View Post
Other than marketing and exposure - what is the primary reason people are using other stores to sell their book - considering that you can setup a WWW page + paypal to do it yourself?
Marketing and exposure are king. I get only 10-15 visitors a week to my web site! When I'm ready for a new book, I don't go browsing authors' web sites to buy; I go to Amazon or to Smashwords. There, readers can see reviews written by others. On an author's web site, they don't know whether the 1-star reviews would ever be posted.

That's not to say we couldn't sell our books from our own web site using PayPal, but the hassle of sending out the file (or DTB), dealing with returns, etc. may be a little much. We have enough to do with writing and marketing. Some writers (like me) don't want to complicate our already busy day with sales on top of everything else.
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