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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I have bought from one or two of these authors, but it's a big pain in the you-know-where. Yes, I saved money, and the author presumably got the entire proceeds, but it's all word of mouth, and you have to know of the author, know of the website and trust the website.
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I asked him if he had an epub edition, and he does not. He said that if he had time, he might convert it and sell the epub edition on his website. Bad, bad, idea. The reason why I went to his website in the first place was because I wanted to ask him about an epub edition because I was pretty sure there wasn't one, and I'm tired of the Amazon exclusivity.
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If you don't have a Kindle, and you don't want to (strip DRM and) convert to epub, and you can't find it at one of the bigger ebook retailers, you'll probably just give up and go to another author before ever thinking of checking to see if the author has her own website and finding the epub there.
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I don't think we're really commenting on the same thing.
Mine was in relation to authors with established audiences who were already managing direct sales via their websites and using special shopping cart/store management software to do so, which seems mildly inefficient for a single-author as far as economies of scale go if it's a 3rd-party pay solution, not ones who sold primarily via other outlets and maybe held the occasional DIY sale via their site.
Yours seems to be about authors selling directly from their sites at all. And I'd think that an author-direct ePub would be better than no ePub at all.