Hi:
This site is still underdevelopment--in other words, it's not live, so
please don't share the ink, and please ignore the glitches and other things you see, but you might want to scroll down to the article called "Can I sell my Book From My own Website?" (click to expand the accordion) :
http://booknook.biz.customers.tigert...and_uploading/ and pay particular attention to the LAST paragraph, if you skim. (I recommend reading the entire article, but if you don't, make sure you read everything after the list.)
It's nearly impossible for me to describe to you what the tech support requirement is like. Suffice it to say, at my company, next to actual direct labor costs for making the book, it is the second-biggest expense I have. I won't discuss real numbers here, but a HUGE percentage of my would-be profit is eaten up in providing tech support (which we flatly state we don't provide) to clients who
don't know how to download files from browsers,
don't know how to save a file to their computer,
don't know how to find a file that they've saved to their computer, etc. Bear in mind that the VAST majority of eBook readers aren't on MR--they don't know what MR'ers know. They buy books at Amazon, et al, and the books are auto-magically delivered to their devices.
I've had several clients try it. Clients that were law firms, and the like, so not dimwits--and every single one of them, every one--quit it after six months. Why? Because they couldn't hack the phone calls, emails, etc., to help the book buyers with downloading the files and getting them on their devices.
Entirely up to you, of course, but....
Hitch