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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
There's "constraint" and there's "constraint." Remember, what you are essentially doing is paying them (through royalties) to provide a service for you. Maybe they can't do everything you'd like, but those "constraints" are usually reasonable.
But even if they are "constraining," the author maintains the ability to just say no, to find another publishing route, including hiring your own webmasters and programmers and having everything done 100% your way.
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I was replying to Paul Dale's post re no constraints.
Speaking as a webmaster (god I hate that word) and someone who hosts websites too, I can tell you that it's a long hard slog to be able to sell enough books from your website, especially if you you have more than one book to sell. The only way I've seen it work successfully for an unknown author is to have a website or domain name for each book title. This is expensive obviously, which is why you need people like Amazon and Smashwords to get your work in front of a large audience in a relatively short space of time.