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The other reason I don't like the idea of author-specific web sites is that I really don't want to have to look at 100 different web sites. I just want a single bookstore, where I can browse for books by lots of different authors.
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That's quite some understandable laziness (it's human after all), but it still is laziness. Authors will stand more of a chance if they are within reach of their readers as directly as possible. No publishers, and definitely no distributors. They both suck their amount of money out of the system.
And any eBookstore is a distributor. Who gets paid for the creative input of other people. Doesn't matter if we are talking about the physical or the digital world here.
And, yes, 35% from Mobipocket are more than an author will usually receive for a printed novel. But you lose some of the control over the files, an essential control, that is, since Mobipocket doesn't allow/enable the deletion of any files once they are uploaded.
They need to keep the files for "statistics". Even after I may discontinue my business with them? Quite interesting ... and, this I experienced with another large website, too.
Doesn't really increase my trust in those online distributors/bookstores.