Thread: Royalties payments for each ebook-selling site
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Old 10-08-2010, 08:59 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by M T McGuire View Post
Yeh. You have a point. I'm a little envious! You know, if I had the first clue, the time or the budget to be able to set my e-book up in all the multifarious formats it has to be in without the Smashwords meatgrinder, I'd probably use my own site rather than anyone else. But I'm time and cash poor; there's all the extra marketing and search engine management, too, so for me it's worth using a middle man. I like Smashwords because on the whole, their cuts are realistic and they don't do stupid things like insist on paying me in US dollars and only then, with cheques of more than $100 at at time. Yeh, the meatgrinder's probably not great but it's better than I can do, and Mark Coker still replies, personally, to any support e-mails and that's got to be impressive.

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It sounds like international authors ought to consider getting together and setting up an eStore someplace outside the US. Preferably someplace with a strong enough legal system so everyone feels safe, but liberal enough tax law that no author is losing 15%+ on each book for out-of-country residency.

Does such a location exist?

It would obviously be an uphill battle to advertise. Still, it's early enough in the growth of ebooks to be "worth" it.
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