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Some epublishers are nothing more than ebook resellers... not publishers at all, and they offer no service other than putting my book on their servers, and siphoning off some of the sale profits. Without an expectation or assurance of significant added exposure from their service, there's not much incentive to use them.
(This, by extension, includes services like Kindle, Smashwords, Kobo, etc... if you can't sustain marketing exposure, your works will be lost in their servers, and the services will do you little good.)
But some ebook publishers can legitimately heighten a book's exposure in the market, making for more sales... and thereby justifying a higher cost for the book (within reason, of course). If the epublisher in question could reliably get you that exposure, there is every reason to consider them.
If they offered other services, such as editorial assistance, cover creation, etc, that your book could use, that would also be a good reason to try them.
Absent of any of those services, there is probably no real benefit with going with an epublisher; the self-publishing methods available to you (Smashwords, Kindle Digital Platform, your own website, etc) will be about equal with their services and advantages, and in some areas, using them may be less advantageous than staying indie (for instance, indie publishers don't have to worry about geo restrictions).
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