Well, I still haven't managed to get buy links on my web site. Apart from anything else, having to find out whether I should charge VAT to any particular buying is troubling me.
BUT. There's good news. Lulu.com, from today, is allowing the sale of ePub books, just like it previously allowed the sale of PDF books.
There are a few teething troubles, but my hand-crafted ePub is now up there.
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/d...-mouse/7867672
They've even included a way to upload a sample ePub, although their download web pages need a little work. (On my web browser, clicking on the link didn't try to download, but opened in a new window - a zip displayed as text isn't useful! Right-clicking and "Download Linked File" work.)
They have changed their price structure for ebooks. It used to be that Lulu took a straight 20% of ebooks. They now take $1.49 and 20% of the rest. So for my $6 ebook they take $1.49 and 20% of $4.51 ($0.90) = $2.39 or 39.8%, leaving me with $3.61. Not as good as Smashwords, but an awful lot better than Amazon (where I can't publish anyway, not have US bank account & address).
Hopefully they'll fix the problems over the next few days (like not being able to upload a nice cover image). But it is another easy ePub outlet for small publishers and authors.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I have very nicely formatted versions in ePub and Mobipocket formats — hopefully I'll get them up on my site soon, but I have to figure out how to handle the VAT. Sigh...
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