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cathalmc · 11-05-2012, 03:10 PM

Bookbaby is like a paid-for Smashwords that accepts epubs and is a good alternative I find. (I published with them back in January 2010 I think it was when it was free.)

Bookbaby is like Smashwords in the sense that they will publish to all the major online retailers for you. They charge to distribute your book but then you keep all the proceeds. Smashwords is free to upload to, but they'll keep 30% of the proceeds.

I'm currently publishing a serialisation of a novel. Smashwords won't distribute serialisations to other retailers, and I don't want to pay Bookbaby for each of the five instalments.

So I'm publishing to Smashwords alone, then to Amazon direct, and using Lulu to distribute to Barnes and Noble and Apple iBookstore. All these are free, with varying levels of commissions.

I'm still not decided whether to publish the full, final novel through Smashwords or Bookbaby, but it will be one of them.

11-05-2012, 03:10 PM	#15
cathalmc Member Posts: 16 Karma: 510134 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Kindle	Bookbaby is like a paid-for Smashwords that accepts epubs and is a good alternative I find. (I published with them back in January 2010 I think it was when it was free.) Bookbaby is like Smashwords in the sense that they will publish to all the major online retailers for you. They charge to distribute your book but then you keep all the proceeds. Smashwords is free to upload to, but they'll keep 30% of the proceeds. I'm currently publishing a serialisation of a novel. Smashwords won't distribute serialisations to other retailers, and I don't want to pay Bookbaby for each of the five instalments. So I'm publishing to Smashwords alone, then to Amazon direct, and using Lulu to distribute to Barnes and Noble and Apple iBookstore. All these are free, with varying levels of commissions. I'm still not decided whether to publish the full, final novel through Smashwords or Bookbaby, but it will be one of them.