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jbcohen · 01-07-2011, 08:28 AM

I can understand why an author might be wavering about selling ebooks on their own site, web sites tend not to move that many units unlike publishers do. I would think that an analysis of the risk/return ratio would have to be looked at. The cost of establishing a web site that can sell their books - the total dollars amount of the sales = profit. Is there a profit or is it going to be a money sink. I would think that if an author is so inclinded to create web site at all the author would preferr if the site made some dollars for him/her and preferably paid for itself in ebook sales.

Book view cafe and bewrite.net are an interesting sites that I will add to my list of book stores, however they are middlemen.

My understanding of the writting process is that the author sells the book to a publishing house such as penguin who sells the finished book to a store such as Borders or Books a Million who then sells to the end reader. Perhaps there is another company in there that I don't know about such as a distributor. I am looking into dropping Borders and Books A Million from the process and hopefully I can drop the distributor and publishing houe from the process. Less hands in the process means faster delivery of the materiel and hopefully better prices.

Thus far I have found estores from Penguin and Random House, thus for the short term i have managed to remove the book stores from the process.

01-07-2011, 08:28 AM	#14
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	I can understand why an author might be wavering about selling ebooks on their own site, web sites tend not to move that many units unlike publishers do. I would think that an analysis of the risk/return ratio would have to be looked at. The cost of establishing a web site that can sell their books - the total dollars amount of the sales = profit. Is there a profit or is it going to be a money sink. I would think that if an author is so inclinded to create web site at all the author would preferr if the site made some dollars for him/her and preferably paid for itself in ebook sales. Book view cafe and bewrite.net are an interesting sites that I will add to my list of book stores, however they are middlemen. My understanding of the writting process is that the author sells the book to a publishing house such as penguin who sells the finished book to a store such as Borders or Books a Million who then sells to the end reader. Perhaps there is another company in there that I don't know about such as a distributor. I am looking into dropping Borders and Books A Million from the process and hopefully I can drop the distributor and publishing houe from the process. Less hands in the process means faster delivery of the materiel and hopefully better prices. Thus far I have found estores from Penguin and Random House, thus for the short term i have managed to remove the book stores from the process. Last edited by jbcohen; 01-07-2011 at 08:42 AM.