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Amazon, Smashwords, Google Playstore, Apple, Scribd, Barnes & Noble, Tolino, Kobo and others list books for free forever. Why would we pay for titles to be listed?
We only upload to Amazon, Smashwords and Google Playstore Books. Smashwords redistributes to Apple, Scribd, Barnes & Noble, Tolino, Kobo and others, so we don't bother using them directly. While Amazon has about 90% of English language ebook sales, about 3/4 of ours are via Smashwords and those they redistribute to. Zero sales via Google Playstore Playbooks, which isn't unusual. We had books cheaper on our own site for a while but it's too complicated doing customer support and harder to setup, per title.
You can't collect 100% even on your own web site as you'd have Pay Pal, SagePay Mastercard or Visa to pay. The big card companies charge a small seller maybe 10x what they charge a supermarket.
Also direct published ebooks pay the author a lot more than the publisher royalties from paper books.
Cloud storage is just someone else's server that you pay for. Most of Amazon, Smashwords, Google Playstore, Apple, Scribd, Barnes & Noble, Tolino and Kobo also offer that, but people are better off making a backup and ignoring so called Cloud storage.
There is Etsy, Wattpad etc. Personally I can't see the point of them.
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