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gmw · 10-28-2012, 09:55 PM

There has been discussion here in the past about BookBaby - in particular versus something like Smashwords - but that aside, are there authors here that have had experience with BookBaby and would be happy to share?

Yes, they have an upfront fee (starting at $99) and a $19 per year annual fee, but for someone outside the U.S. they do provide an alternative to Smashwords that doesn't require a U.S. account (I have an email in to them about the requirement for a U.S. tax identification number, since I don't see how they can really avoid that one), and that doesn't require you to strip your carefully constructed epub down to a pulp in order to submit it to a grinder.

At this point I am only studying the available alternatives, hence this post. If anyone knows of other such alternatives worth looking at, I'd be happy to hear about them.

10-28-2012, 09:55 PM	#1
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	BookBaby experiences? There has been discussion here in the past about BookBaby - in particular versus something like Smashwords - but that aside, are there authors here that have had experience with BookBaby and would be happy to share? Yes, they have an upfront fee (starting at $99) and a $19 per year annual fee, but for someone outside the U.S. they do provide an alternative to Smashwords that doesn't require a U.S. account (I have an email in to them about the requirement for a U.S. tax identification number, since I don't see how they can really avoid that one), and that doesn't require you to strip your carefully constructed epub down to a pulp in order to submit it to a grinder. At this point I am only studying the available alternatives, hence this post. If anyone knows of other such alternatives worth looking at, I'd be happy to hear about them.