Thread: Is Smashwords the answer?
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Old 02-13-2012, 02:47 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by altworld View Post
You also forgot to mention that Bookbaby charges you per change, you get one FREE change a year and after that is $50 a pop... Changes on SW FREE no matter how many. Then the ISBN is $19... ISBN on SW FREE... Then a $19 yearly listing fee, no yearly listing FEE on SW
You also neglected to mention one of Smashwords' biggest advantage, IMO: they're a destination portal for books, the brand name of indie book publishing as it were, and offers you the potential to get an 80%+ take (85% - credit card/paypal fees) on e-books sold through their site. Piles of people have heard of Smashwords, virtually no one's heard of most of the alternatives to SW.

I still believe that a royalty-based model may not ideal for something you think is going to be a breakout hit, but (as I mentioned earlier) you can mitigate that by doing the work yourself for just the major few (Kindle, Kobo, etc., though I'm in Canada so I would have to let SW do Nook), and letting SW fill in the gaps and sell on their own website.
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