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Originally Posted by Redcard
Would it help if I said I researched charities VERY well and only give to charities where a certain percentage or more goes directly to the cause and a certain percentage or less goes to admin? Trust me, I know full well about how hard it is to find charities that actually do work and don't drive their CEO's around in Limos. I ran a charity once, so I understand intimately.
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What I'd suggest, is if you are selling from your own site then by all means allow people to make a donation to your favourite charities at the same time as buying from you, and why not have a little bit of information on why you like those particular charities. If I was there buying your books, then I'd be prepared to at least read about your charities. But I'd steer away from forcing donations.
Also, going back to the piracy thing I had wanted to point something out, rather than make a new post in the thread I'll tack it on here.
Watch that you don't consider pirates to be potential customers. The only way an author loses is when a potential customer is able to take the item without paying, where they would have paid otherwise. The MPAA and co are always shooting their mouths off about the amount of lost revenue from college filesharing in America. It's entirely fictitious to assume that people who have downloaded GBs of MP3s and dozens of movies would have bought them otherwise.