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Originally Posted by Rbneader
Don't think so. Here's why:
I've never heard of Frank Tuttle and the Markat series sounds interesting, so I tried to check it out on their site.
There's no mention of what forms of payment Samhain takes.
There's no indication of the series order on the book pages.
There's no reviews or links to reviews on the book pages.
There's no clear indication when a book has been added to a cart. I did it twice before noticing the small, temporary color block.
I have to make and activate an account with my email before they'll let me make an account to buy a book.
Samhain Publishing is making it stupidly hard to buy a book from them. You can say that these are all small things, but they've put enough friction between me and making a purchase that I've basically lost interest. It doesn't take a lot to do that given my TBR pile and easier storefronts (I wound up buying a book I've had my eye on at Baen). At some point they made decisions that added up to relying on Amazon for sales, and since Amazon's changes post-KU small publishers can't rely on Amazon to manage the sales end anymore.
Between that and other complaints about their marketing, it's clear that Samhain is not 100% on the ball. Sad, but in the current market being even slightly off form is enough to take a publisher down.
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Tuttle is worth buying.
I have bought once or twice through Samhain, and like a lot of other publishers, setting up their own cart business seemed like kind of an afterthought. I get an email every week from Simon and S. and they are now trying to drive traffic to their own site (but also include buy links for all the other major retailers). Where were they 5 years ago? 10?
For Samhain I know they take paypal because that's what I used. Don't know the other forms, but I totally understand what you are saying. I wouldn't have bothered had it not been an author I already read.