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Originally Posted by VydorScope
And there is this clause that has some up in arms...
"You hereby grant to Barnes & Noble... irrevocable right and license to make your eBooks available for sale...."
But I have not read the TOS myself yet. I think I will pull a wait and see how this turns out, might got back to using Smashwords to push to B&N and let their lawyers deal with it.
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If I'm going through Smashwords and letting them act for me with B&N, do I have to worry about the TOS? I never used PubIt (horrible sounding name!
) in the first place because they wanted a credit card and they kind of freaked me out with some of the stuff they were asking for. I've been letting Smashwords handle things for me, but I'd like to know if I might want to pull my books off distribution to B&N.
Giving them an irrevocable right to sell my ebook makes me kind of leery as I've already switched one self-pubbed book to a small press. I had to take H&V off the shelves everywhere; so to have B&N tell me "Too bad" and keep selling my ebook... The idea of that seems not cool at all. It would be a reason not to list future books with them.
Though the very idea of their TOS being that screwed up seems as though they're pushing for their business to tank. Just doesn't seem like a smart practice to me.