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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
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.
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There is a big difference between the ABILITY to do something and the WISDOM in doing it. Anyone can get a cheap ugly site up with one of the many cookie cutter hosts with their own domain name in hours.
Just because its stupid, and destine to fail (unless you toss real money at it in big piles for marketing, design, etc) does not mean you do not have the ability to be stupid.
The indy author has that ability, contracts often/can prevent non-indy authors form doing that.
I host sites too (and build them for paying clients), and I have book on them... as a link to my Amazon/etc listings.
I know enough about SEO to do well in Google.. but I still sell through established stores.