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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I agree. I buy from some very small publishers that sell directly on their site, so it's not like you need some huge amount of capital.
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You just need a hosted eCommerce solution in a Datacentre (simple) and customer service (not so simple). But the customer service issue isn't as bad as for physical goods.
We looked at just using Paypal (people don't need a Paypal account) and emailing the ebook when we got the PayPal details. Some of you will know why we didn't do it.
It's not either or at all:
Offer paper print runs via traditional means
Never let stuff out of print. One off POD costs are low enough to still make a profit and big publishers surely are able to do POD in house or get a better price.
Ebooks via every ebook seller and their own site.
Really the big publishers seem clueless. I've even bought POD paperbacks at less than a big publisher title not in a supermarket from a small publisher where the receipt email had a free download code at Smashwords.
We'd like POD with a unique code inside the cover of each book and to sell SD cards with one audio book and several ebooks included as bonus and offer that free with cassettes. Oddly cassette is still best audio book format for bad sight and superior to CD for audio books (remembers where you left off even on a different player). Cassette players easy to use by feel still sold.