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Originally Posted by Synamon
I buy my airline tickets online directly from the airline, the tea I like directly from Bigelow, goofy golf shorts for my husband from Loudmouth, etc., so it was a natural thing for me to go looking for publisher sites selling ebooks directly when I first got into ebooks. Some of them do have websites, but navigating them is a nightmare and they are definitely not geared to ebooks. On the two I tried I couldn't even do a search just for ebooks. I can't understand why the big publishers don't have a significant presence on the net for selling ebooks, it seems like a missed opportunity to me. Actually I take that back, their non-existent presence has to be intentional, which highlights their indifference or possibly even hostility towards ebooks.
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That sounds like Goodreads. They have a HUGE following by readers, so I uploaded one of my books for sale there. Then I decided to see how long it would take me to find it. I started searching...looking for genre as a starting place. Hmm. Ebooks. Okay, got that. And now...I can sort by popularity or price...
Long ways to go. I think they will get there as will others. But in the meantime? Customers go where things work. Customers go where it's easy. And any site that is not easy enough to use such that the customer goes somewhere else...has a bad selling model.