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Originally Posted by rhadin
I suspect that when they get the Amazon ebook contract they will discover that they can't offer the book at a lower price to anyone than they offer the book to Amazon. So if they offer it free under the CC license, say here at MR, they will have to offer it free to Amazon. Amazon, OTOH, will be able to sell it for whatever price it desires and reap the total profit.
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Bang on the money. Looking further into the Amazon contract (not that we could sign up as we're UK based) we're discovering that it isn't something we want to be involved in anyway. The DRM is a big sticking point for all of us as we're all in agreement that it does very little, apart from hinder the end-user/reader.
So far we're going to go this route (preliminary)
Feedbooks / P2P / MobileRead and any others we can discover (all in ePub)
Books linking into a website
Some form of dontatiion/tip jar button (Paypal is in the lead at the moment)
We're also thinking of doing a steady stream of short-stories (we're all fans of the short form) in a monthly newsletter and collecting these at quarterly intervals for release. This is just in the playpen at the moment and subject to change.