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Originally Posted by booklover6
Well I wish them success. I am very supportive of the model. However if they don't allow full justification as a choice, I may not buy the sub. I have emailed them my preference for this, and for additional fonts. The person said she would tell the developers.
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Their support responses seem pretty fast. I wish their black on white had blacker text. I'm finding the sepia is best for me as well.
Here's what I found about the payment and I don't know if this was final or what was being beaten about
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"Full read" credit is when a reader reads more than 20% of the book, not counting the first 10% of the book starting at page one. They also pay for partial reads, which is a cool bonus and unlike any other retailer. If a reader reads 5% beyond the 10% sample, but less than 20% beyond, you receive a "browse" credit.
I think I already mentioned that authors cannot upload directly to the sub service (which would be my preference. Not that smash does a bad job, but I have stopped publishing there for other reasons). Authors can upload directly to the "for sale" section of scribd, which may actually get some traction now that scribd has some reader eyeballs. HOWEVER if an author is with smashwords, you are basically opting to distributed to BOTH via them. So you can't get the benefit of uploading your own stuff for sale if you need Smashwords to do the sub service distribution. Not saying this is bad; it actually saves steps for the author, but just pointing it out.
I continue to be impressed with the books I see there; of course, I've actually READ a number of the more popular authors: Fluke, Tim Myers, Martha Wells (fantasy author) Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Aimee Gilchrist, Elizabeth Peters, Shirley Damsgaard and so on.
There are also some indie authors that I've had on my list but never gotten to that I can try via the service without it costing my anything. Connie Shelton (I think I may have actually read one of hers), Kaye George --oh that reminds me I think I saw Elizabeth Georges titles up there too. Oh, and I saw Lawrence Block there too.