Just a thought for Alex...

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

ah, well there was some talk for a while of MR starting a communal editing service, which perhaps could be rediscussed. i'm not sure what logistics would be involved in setting up an online payment system since the money wouldn't go to mr, but to individual authors. that might be more complicated. it is an interesting idea though.

for now we can at least definitely encourage authors writing under a CC licence to distribute their work here (unless, as is the case for Spacejock Hal, they need to be able to reference the download count, and therefore must keep the distribution local on their own site).

Well it could go to mobileread (same way etsy and ebay take a cut), but I don't know how that works.

I don't think it necessarily needs to be edited either. I dunno, just tossing the idea out there.

[MonaLS]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Are you sure? I think it adds up and you get charged when you hit $5.00

Amazon's official word is that you get charged when you get up to $3.00 but very very few people have reported getting charged.