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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Ingrams have handled our ebooks for the past eight years, Brian. They started to disappear from the major US stores (Amazon, B&N, etc) when they opened their own ebook-specific retail outlets.
For the time being, we get around this by using Smashwords as a 'partner', which gives us US status (albeit with 30% of revenue withheld at source for the IRS). We prefer our own carefully prepared in house ebooks, though, so we've had a lawyer and accountant on the case for a couple of months to establish a US-base. Even though it will be only on paper, it will be legal and recognised by the US authorities.
Oh, what a tangled web is international tax law. Hoots. Neil
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Interesting. Of course B&N and Amazon don't use distributors (they act as their own) I just figured Books A Million would be using one of the big distros, but maybe not. Seems more and more the distros are going by the way side in favor of the store itself being, in effect, it's own distributor getting titles right from the publisher and setting up it's own DRM servers.
I certainly don't blame you for wanting the use the books you've crafted in-house to your specifications in general I find those to be better than books from Smashwords or a lot of the Fictionwise (while they last) Multiformat offerings.