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Originally Posted by altworld
Sure reads like and advert and endorsement, even going as far as trashing Smashwords
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Believe what you choose. The reality, however, is that I like Smashwords, and would probably choose them myself if self publishing, as anything I write would likely be pretty niche and do better under a royalty system than a flat rate system. I've also purchased Smashwords-published content several times on my Kobo, including one this morning. I only even know of Bookbaby because they only recently added Kobo support, and I have a news alert set up for anything new related to Kobo. Now Kobo, *there's* an e-reading company I'm a bit of a fanboy of, that I can't deny. :-)
If Smashwords only takes 5% then I retract my statement as it was based on SW taking 15% (which is what they seemed to be saying on their website). If you're correct, that means you'd have to sell a whole lot more before a flat rate model like Bookbaby became attractive.