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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
There could be a site with book choices, click on titles and the sales are redirected to the author's site; he pays back the distributor. Everything could be automated and most of the funds generated by this type of coop would support its infrastructure and promotion of the works.
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I've been considering creating such a site, by using the Amazon (and other similar) affiliate systems. It would work like this: the author would create an account at the coop site. (I haven't figured out yet how to validate the author's identity, though.) The author would then list their book, and the site would create links to purchase that book, new or used, via the affiliate programs. The author would then get their cut as the referring party. I'm not sure how much of a paperback's list price authors normally get, but this might amount to about the same amount for many used books, especially hardcovers. Then, with some decent marketing, we could try to make this the preferred way of buying used books. It wouldn't raise the costs to the purchasers at all, so I think it would have a decent chance of working.
Thoughts?