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Old 07-20-2014, 11:52 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by Josieb1 View Post
I'm friends with quite a few authors and even though I avoid Amazon it's still their most important seller, and vital for self publishing. They get more money from direct publisher sales (I.e Dreamspinner, Samhain etc) per book but they shift more books via Amazon compared to any other seller.
This is generally true for me as well, although some months I sell almost as many copies total over at Kobo (different mix of what sells, but on a per copy count). Kobo has even beaten out Amazon at least one month. But I don't think going without Amazon is a viable plan.

I don't sell a lot on AllRomance so I'd been thinking of trying another channel. I like their CS and they run deals that my books qualify for and so on. But not all my books are romance and generally speaking romance is a subplot for my books so I thought they might do better on a different platform. Right now I use AllRomance to push the titles to Apple and that hasn't worked well for me, but it's all or nothing--I either push all of them via AllRomance or none and it's not easy to switch on and off...bother.

Well, it's interesting input and by that I mean your personal experiences as well as the topic of someone buying based on DRM. Thanks.
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