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zelda, thanks for the encouragement. All a would-be shareware author needs is a blog, a PayPal button, and his/her books available from Feedbooks or manybooks.net. A personal website isn't necessary, though server space is getting cheaper and cheaper, and there are some excellent freeware HTML editors available, like KompoZer. If such authors could be located from a central, classifying site (this could even be another blog), it would help a great deal with the main problem -- promotion.
pilotbob, if my memory serves I believe Stephen King tried to get people to pay on a per-chapter basis -- not a good approach. I don't know about the other writer.
neko, this is the very argument, put forward by my better half, which finally persuaded me to give it another shot. I've revamped the website to dissuade visitors from doing this:
home page > downloads page > exit
I'm hoping they'll now connect a little more with the content and then decide whether they really want to download. At the same time I've tried not to make it hard to find the download links.
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