In the old days, you could pretty much set anything outside and leave it. Similarly, blogs were originally online journals, where you said whatever you wanted - and devil take the hind parts.

Now, with the amount of scrutiny Google is giving to blogs (and the amount of authority they can generate) it makes little sense to do nothing except routinely craft excellent articles.

This is coming about as I prepare to move to Rainmaker. (Don't worry, I'll still syndicate content here and my other blogs.)

I started doing podcasts over at SelfPublishEbook blog. It was then I noticed that in order to not produce boring podcasts, I had to write better. And the sheer amount of work it takes to get podcasts (let alone videos) done meant to me that I needed to restudy my Copywriting basics to produce content that was not just useful (all my stuff is that, except for the occasional rant - which is cathartic, at least for me) - content had to be fascinating and real infotainment.

That meant also that I needed an outlet for other material, since that blog was now devoted to podcasts and every post would have audio - they would each be recorded.

Simple product reviews and news would have to go elsewhere - luckily for me, I already put this "alternate blog" in place to cover that possibility.

Podcasting updates:

I did a little more research into Podcasting Directories to post to. It was pointed out, and I agree with the premise, that Podcasting is much like book marketing, where the "Big 5" do not represent all readers - the long tail niche is served by many other directories other than iTunes, Blubrry, MiroGuide, etc.

I included a few others, but left out anyone where you had to send them an email. Being able to simply submit a podcast feed and not have to rely on a personal gatekeeper seemed more professional to me (and the other felt like begging.)

So the list:

Podcast Dir	address
iTunes	https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/publishPodcast
Stitcher	http://www.stitcher.com/content-providers
Miro	http://www.miroguide.com/accounts/login/
doubleTwist	http://www.doubletwist.com/contact/
Blubrry	http://www.blubrry.com/addpodcast.php
Libsyn	http://www.libsyn.com/podcast-source-submit/
Podcast Directory	http://www.podcastdirectory.com/submit-your-podcast.html
Digital Podcast	http://www.digitalpodcast.com/feeds/new
Plazoo	http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
Podcastpedia	http://podcastpedia.org/how_can_i_help/add_podcast

In this, once you have met iTunes standards, you should be good to go anywhere and everywhere else. Some you have to sign up and have an account (and iTuDon't miss out. Sign up today.
nes you really should have a MAC to get the most out of it, but not a required investment if you don't roll that way. A Mac Mini for $500 isn't a heavy cost, since it can be outfitted with any HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse you already have.

Where marketing and my future books are heading

Blurb Review

This came up as I was looking at alternatives to Lulu (namely: CreateSpace) and Blurb's name came up as a Print-on-Demand solution which also ported to Ingram and elsewhere.

Pluses:

To begin with, it costs you nothing to upload your book. Chiefly they make their money from publishing, and selling you multiple copies of your own book. In this, they are competitive with both Lulu and CreateSpace for pricing. (Oh, and you have to pay to get their logo off your book, except for trade books that can be distributed through Ingram.)

What CreateSpace doesn't do that Lulu does - print hardback books.

What Blurb does that neither Lulu or CreateSpace does - print magazines.

If you can successfully publish your book there, they do have a bookstore - which would be another discovery opportunity. Like Leanpub, you have to jump through hoops to get there.

Minuses:

You have to use their program to get your book created. Those programs only really run on MAC or Linux. You can use a plug-in for In-Design - but that only runs on a MAC. Blurb isn't platform independent.

They've only recently gotten into ebooks and feature the Kindle as their example of how to make one (poor example, since the Kindle is a walled garden where readers don't really own their books.)

They do publish PDF's - but of course you can only buy them through Blurb or your own site.

You can upload your own formatted, print-ready PDF - but are faced with an incredible amount of detail which only professional printers would know answers to. Dumb to give self-publishers that hill to climb as well.

Summary: 

Not ready for prime time. You're stuck into using their programs or else. And the programs aren't simple, but designed for professional print graphic designers.

Ebooks are an after-thought as they are just now (years late) coming up with their own entry into this market.

Their printing prices look cheaper than both Lulu and CreateSpace, but you're basically being forced into hiring a pro to get your book onto their lines.

Liber.io Review

This was refreshing. And tempting. Found it by chance while posting elsewhere - came from Zemanta recommendations.

Pluses:

Web based. Runs even when you don't have a web-connection (reportedly.)

Will take documents you've uploaded to Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, and OneDrive - as well as uploading from your own computer.

Liber.io is a very, very simple conversion program. Essentially, you get a very close version to how you formatted it on G-Drive. Don't know why Smashwords and Lulu make this so complicated.

They give you a nice page for your ebook where people can download it - for free. Both epub and mobi versions as a zip file.

What's really fascinating is that they are the first to support epub3, meaning they'll allow you to add music and videos to your book (Soundcloud or Vine.) Of course, almost no ebook readers will play these...

Minuses:

You're probably best off uploading to Google Drive and pulling it from there. I tested a local .ODT file and found it dropped all the images and twisted the links. ODT files uploaded to G-Drive are converted into its own version. Liber.io will handle (reportedly) anything you can get onto G-Drive, but I haven't tested powerpoints, etc.

Liberio is only a conversion program. It doesn't enable you to sell your book, other than offering a cut-rate ISBN (which you don't need to publish an ebook, contrary to what they say.)

It's default page style is justified - which shatters on most smartphone ereaders.

Their eBook to Go package gives you a very nice price on ISBN's (price a single one and you'll see this is a bargain. Having your own ISBN means you can publish under your own imprint, not Lulu's or CreateSpace's. They allow you to remove their branding (which you could do with Calibre's editor) and give you a  minisite to link your book to all the popular sites. (Ganxy will also link your hardcopy versions.)

You'll still need to check on Calibre's epub editor, or Sigil. While it does pass the epubcheck, there are items it doesn't check for (such as too large a file.)

And their offer of a dirt-cheap ISBN is a great one. I tried it out and could get everything except the mini-site to work - which is the main draw of this. You can do the same with Sellfy, Payhip, or Ganxy (even Gumroads).

Since you don't need an ISBN, this is not a draw, really.

Summary:

Great for beginners. Essentially, this is probably the easiest way to get a text file converted to an epub. Much easier than anywhere else. Anywhere.

They do really an incredible job for nothing.

For someone with a simple whitepaper or manifesto to publish as an ebook (particularly if you want to give it away as a lead generator, this is a good - if not the best - way to get your text file simply converted to ebub and mobi.

I haven't found Liber.io to be a replacement for the assembly line of LibreOffice-Writer2Epub-Calibre for creating and checking epubs. But I've been at this for a long while and started when it wasn't as easy as it is now.

If you're just starting out, I'd recommend either Leanpub or Liber.io to get your conversions done, then tweak them in Calibre's editor to remove the branding.

After that, get your ISBN for free from Lulu (who will also sell your book for you) and then port it to the other 5 main distributors.

Just saw how Books A Million is "opening up" for self-publishing - here's my review.

In short: Vanity Publishing still lives.

Why I can't/won't use them:

• Their interface won't allow epubs to be uploaded, and has to be done by chapter.
• PDF's aren't readily accepted (while they are everywhere else.)
• Their prices are not competitive with Lulu.com or CreateSpace.

But you can't say I didn't try.

Their claim to fame is using the Espresso Book Machine, which (if you've done your homework) shoots them in the foot - since the EBM is free to upload your books and will accept anything Lulu gives you back as a review copy (including the covers.)

How my uploads failed

Even though they worked everywhere else, DIY BAM wouldn't take them.

I signed up (at least that's free) and went through the paces.

First, you have to enter the meta-data by hand. Some distributors will glean this from the book itself, if you've embedded it in the creation process. Google Play/Books is the best at this.

If you want to have an epub, you have to edit it there. You can import text, but only a chapter at a time. If you upload a PDF, you can't sell epubs there, as they don't back-covert it. No, you can't upload a .doc or .odt file like you can on Lulu or Smashwords, and several others.

Next the upload. I tried to publish a book I've been selling for years. Using the Lulu proof (which is accepted by Espresso Book Machine) but hit this reject:


That was the same reject for a PDF (which has to include the cover art) that they'll sell for you as an ebook.

Yes it was exactly 6x9, and yes it meets Espresso standards - so what the hell?

Meaning the only way I could have a book would be to punt back to uploading my book a chapter at a time.

Continuing on brought more surprises

Most of the rest is adding more meta data. Their BISAC is limited to top-level categories, much like Lulu.

Pricing is kinda funny, but if you've published on Lulu, this isn't so different:


Ebooks are 80% royalty, which is higher than most ebook distributors (Lulu is 90% - ahem). Print books have a lot of overhead, so author's royalties aren't as good as ebooks. You're getting about 32% in the example above, while traditional publishers get about 25% or less (once any advance is paid back.)

The big surprise you could have seen on the signs coming in - but I didn't think they were serious:

Lulu gives me the same distribution for the price of an approved proof (which is just over what it costs them to produce and ship it to you. So I'd save about $270 - and guess what? It isn't time-limited to three years, but stays up there forever.

And no, I don't have to pay $59 just to get my own book printed.

If you show up at an Espresso Book Machine, and you can get it printed for small fees. (Michigan State charges about $10 to set up, then

• Black and white 40-99 pages - $8.00 flat rate
• Black and white 100+ pages - $9.00 for the first 100 pages, plus $0.02 per page for each additional page 101-800

I think BAM is modelling their system on IngramSpark's set up - but that's "only" $49 "set-up fees" per book, and $12 per year to keep it in distribution.

Oh, come on. What BAM and Ingram call "affordable" is just another way to admit you just got taken for a sucker.

Go to a college book store and  you can self-publish a single copy of your book for under 25 bucks. That's affordable vanity publishing.

And using Lulu it will cost you maybe that much (probably not, if your editing is good) and you'll have it available everywhere - forever.

Summary - shop around for DIY self-publishing.

I've been using Lulu for years, back when CreateSpace had set-up fees - Lulu has always been free. Lulu also has a marketplace, CreateSpace doesn't. I get some sales directly from Lulu every month - which is nice - and I don't have to pay to have my book listed there.

You can get print books there, as well as epubs and PDF's. Even sell your own books directly with a personal storefront.

Meanwhile, you can actually submit your Lulu proofs to Espresso Book Machine network and get about 25% royalties - and have people order them through Books-a-Million. (You could even sign up through Commission Junction to become a Books-a-Million affiliate and earn extra book income, like iTunes does.)

Of course, if you use Sellfy, or Payhip, or Ganxy, or Gumroad to sell on your own site, you get around 90% royalties on ebooks - and send them direct to Lulu to get about 80% royalties on print books. Sending people somewhere else to get your ebook, or somewhere besides Lulu for your print book is really just leaving money on the table.

Is the Books-a-Million DIY publishing scene good for indie authors?

IMHO - No.

My advice is to wait for their backend to mature, and their prices to come down.

Meanwhile, create your books on Lulu and sell them everywhere - especially on your own site.

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Selling an (e)book online isn't all that hard...

...finding places that will sell for you is more difficult.

(photo: wikipedia)

Of course, that seems to be contrary - and it's something all authors have been through. You can't just figure that Amazon is going to sell any of your books for you, despite all the great books which jumped on the GRQ (Get Rich Quick) bandwagon with Amazon.

My own story was that I got myself financially independent with the other 5 main distributors long before I started seeing much from Amazon. But when I did, a single .99 bestseller started making me more than three times as much as the others all together.

The point is to not wait for Amazon to start moving your book, but get busy getting your book out to all the other places you can.

Just to recap, the main distributors are:

• Amazon
• iTunes
• Nook
• Kobo
• Google Play/Books.

I always include Lulu.com in the mix. While I don't get a lot of sales from them, that is where I do my hardcopy versions, which then help get ebook sales and vice-versa. I also get free ISBN's for my ebooks there. (Note: Createspace has an Amazon stigma and doesn't have an online bookstore as Lulu does - so it's not a distributor, just a POD publisher. Lightning Source is similar, as well as Ingram Spark. These last two are pay-to-play - while Lulu is and has always been free.

Additional distributors to add:

• Scribd.com - again, original works only. Their duplicate content filter is merciless on PD and PLR.
• Doc-Stoc - for PDF's (unexplored by myself - slated for testing.)
  
• Smashwords - while an aggregator like Lulu, if your work is original, you can get them to distribute your ebooks everywhere. The royalties can be slow in coming (slower even than Lulu.) When you use aggregators, you give up some of your royalty to them - which can dive toward 50% in some cases.
• Espresso Network - this is another route to get your hardcopies sold in real Print on Demand. People literally can walk up to one of these machines and get your book printed in 8 minutes. Just submit your PDF's from Lulu.
• Sellfy - fairly unknown, but they have their own storefront for ebooks and are constantly improving it. They also can help you set up a bookstore on a Facebook page tab - nice, as this gives you around/over 90% royalties.
• OverDrive - if you are a decent sized small publisher, this might be worth investing in a Windows computer to access their lines.
• Leanpub - a very small distributor, but for original books (especially programming ones) they have a very nice set up and can generate an epub, mobi, and PDF file from your .doc or .odt (LibreOffice) file.

How to find more marketplaces 

The trick, surprisingly enough, is to search for "marketplaces" on Google.

What you'll find are some interesting sites, most of which are competitors to Clickbank - meaning that you are going to be getting affiliate sales people pushing your book for commissions.

What's great about these is that you can add all manner of related digital files into that package, like the book trailer, and images, even research notes and deleted chapters. Think in terms of scanning in your handwritten plot studies, and you can see how to make this work well.

Existing list of digital marketplaces:

(I worked these up on the premise of not having to pay monthly fees, let alone posting fees, to get your book up and online for sale.)

• Distribly.com
• Scubbly.com
• PayDotCom.com
• JVZoo.com
• Payspree 
• Click2Sell

All of these are primarily affiliate sales centers. Some are far better than others. So if you have a sense of propriety that could be easily offended by self-promoters hawking their wares, or mind rubbing shoulders with questionable Internet Marketing hyper-salespeople - maybe you should skip these. On the otherhand, this could give you another 7 places where your ebook could be promoted and sold for you, giving you an audience from splitting your booksales commissions with someone else.

In searching recently, I came up with additional marketplaces:

• Zaxaa - set up for some interesting marketing approaches you may have not considered as a self-publishing author.
• Rapbank - similar features to the above, but also individually approve each product so there aren't duplicate items promoted.
• PayGear - as with many of these, affiliates and publishers (that's you) are paid instantly via PayPal.

What these each provide, although they seem to be fairly new to this arena, is solutions to people needing an online shopping cart and marketplace where they can link to their product without having to pay Credit Card fees or maintain scripts on their own site.

While I've otherwise covered much simpler providers (Payhip, Ganxy, and Sellfy come to mind) which can give you scripts to sell directly from your site, the point of having a marketplace - particularly where affiliates come to find things they can pitch profitably to their own list - is the chief advantage in using such a list above.

Later, I'll do a full study of all these to see what this really entails. For now, you can get started on your own and have some fun with these. All of these guarantee their sites, so it's no loss to you for trying them.

The idea is that this should be another set of places where you can enable people to find your books in addition to the Big Distributors everyone else talks about.

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[Update: Just did another search. Those I don't list here are either so new, or so problematical in their application, that I didn't include them on purpose. Those you see here are worth investigating to see if they'll work for you. That's what I'll be up to, soon...]

[Update2: Went through another listing of some 30+ different sites which offered various scenes from shopping carts to marketplaces. Unfortunately, none passed what is currently available for free (well, no fees upfront) services by Payhip, Ganxy, Gumroad, and Sellfy. Only Sellfy had a marketplace and Facebook bookstore. Payhip is used instead of any of the other three because it offers huge uploads and doesn't rely on a "javascript only" widget. 

As I'm soon transferring to Rainmaker - which enables sales right out of the gate for any digital product - except for Sellfy, these others disappear. Sellfy stays because of the discovery potential with their marketplace (and that "inside Facebook" bookstore.)

Gumroads would be great if you didn't want to maintain your own website and membership. I'm essentially hosted by Blogger, which doesn't like the scripts.

I was a big fan of Ganxy, until I found that Payhip could do much more for the same (free) price. In my case, I'm only needing an on-page widget to enable direct sales and bundles for these blogs (SEO value) as I migrate to Rainmaker.

Just wanted to share you some pain...]

A Review of Shopping Carts and On-board Sales Scripts for Ebooks and Digital Goods

(Photo: Caden Crawford)

Until now, there were two ways to sell your books: Use a distributor like Amazon or iTunes - or carry stacks around to the various indie bookstores.

The distributors take their share - anywhere from 25% up to 80% - just for the privilege of using their site and network.

Selling by hand is something most people aren't trained for. Or even like to do.

Authors aren't usually trained in running a business, they've trained themselves to write and write and write.

The problem is that if they stop writing to do selling, then they aren't really earning new income - just cannibalizing their earlier work. And for pennies compared to what they can make through the networks and audiences built up by the major ebook and book distributors.

Still - most authors starve in garrets anyway, or keep their day jobs and wait for retirement so they can finally start to write full time. Something like 70-90% make around $500 per year at what they most like to do - but can't. (Of course, the surveys are quite incomplete in this area.)

The third way to earn book income - be your own distributor as well.

Many, many times, I've told you to build a list - that this was the key to your success and "instant" bestsellers on Amazon.

What if there was a way to leverage that "captive" audience in a more profitable way than just having them buy from the major distributors?

How about 90+% royalties - and being able to bundle all your works into even better packages for your loyal fans, that they would pay extra to get. How about turning those same loyal fans into evangelists who generate income from friends of friends you have never met or heard from, but who join your list and start buying your books with abandon - at these much higher royalties for the same price as you offer them at any of the main distributors....

It's not a dream, it can be a reality.

The horror stories uncovered behind the Big distributors

It all started with a review. I was simply looking for more distributors. What I found was a set of new services which would allow you to offer books from your own site.

True, especially with a hosted service like Rainmaker, you can offer digital products like ebooks or audio books - and they have built-in affiliate programs to offer your readers. They are even starting to offer a course delivery system - perfect, just an extra $95 a month. Cheap, for what you get - but struggling authors don't necessarily have that for a budget.

That research didn't find any new distributors - well, one. But nothing like you or I were expecting. I did find two ebook distributors, but they don't accept any new publishers. Kinda like Feedbooks, where they'll only take your book if it's free - but that's not really distribution, is it.

What I did find was ways you can sell your books directly to your list - and the common denominator was that they host your files for you and arrange payments via common pay systems like PayPal and Stripe. Their low overhead allows them to give you that high royalty - which others can't. Amazon has huge costs - and usually claims their book sales run at a loss (what we can trust of their reporting.) If it hadn't been for Apple raising their royalties to 75%, Amazon would have kept self-publishing commissions to 35% indefinitely. Meanwhile, Google Play/Books pays only 52% with an auto-discount of 20% on any price you give them. Kobo and Nook are at least playing with iTunes.

Other distributors like OverDrive (Content Reserve) will only accept your books if you are a larger publisher and will put up with their Windows-only systems.

As I mentioned, I did find two other semi-major ebook distributors, but they weren't accepting new authors. What was left were small distributors who had just a small clientèle - and asked you (almost pitifully) to bring traffic to them.

The result of this is just as the 2012 Taleist survey and more recent DBW survey point out - somewhere between 1 and 5% of all self-publishing authors are making a decent living at it. Maybe 20% are covering their bills, and the average for everyone else is about $500 a year - oddly the same amount both surveys came up with. Not very scientific, but it adds up.

Now Amazon has come up with a way to pay authors even less, while they profit even more - and still play the game of keeping your book from being distributed anywhere else you could be earning income. All these Big distributors readily accept your books, knowing that most books don't sell well, if at all. Amazon has become known as the new writer's book graveyard because of their "also bought" algorithm and emphasis on reviews which can be faked and bought.

All is not lost, however. There are alternatives.

The review which brought a sunshine-ray of hope

Again, let's go back to that review - I found some more distributors, plus I found four services which are taking advantage of some recent technologies and were able to simply host and sell your books - or any particular digital-based program or file.

Very clever, actually. The recent improvements in storage, bandwidth, and HTML5 have allowed very small scripts to enable an add-on presence to any website, blog - even Facebook.

So you can sell directly to your list, get higher royalties, and even enable them to get a discount for sharing - or a direct cut of the "action" by sending your offer out to their list.

Here's the candidates:

Additional distributors:

1. PaySpree
2. DigitalPoint.com
3. Myebook.com
4. eBookMall.com
5. Feedbooks.com
6. Leanpub.com
7. Sellfy.com

To save time - none of these work for the general author, used to the big distributors.

• PaySpree is mostly an affiliate sales site. 
• DigitalPoint has an audience which is mostly Internet Marketing types.
• Myebook costs for every book or magazine. eBookMall won't accept new authors.
• Feedbooks only takes free books, it gets its income from selling books by larger for-profit distributors.
• Leanpub is limited to original works and mostly deals with programming and coding books.
• Sellfy is the most promising as a distributor, but has no reviews or  "related", "author", or "series" algorithms running - they seem relatively new to this scene. They do give you recommendations based on your selected areas in your custom "feed". What they enable you to do is to sell your audio, video and any other digital product (fonts, programs, etc.) as well as ebooks - and build  your following on this platform.

On-site selling:

1. Sellfy
2. Ganxy.com
3. Gumroad.com
4. Payhip.com

Sellfy shows up here as well, since you can - with all of these - add widgets to your site so that your list can buy directly from you. In general, most run very thin margins and only charge about 5% on average (some more) and after PayPal or your merchant takes their share,  you get maybe 92% of the price you asked for.

All of these four do just that - low-overhead sales right from your own site. Your reader buys and keeps reading. You don't have to send them to Amazon or iTunes to check out - and not come back.

If you built a big list up, then having people come and buy from you directly for every new release (or re-releasing your back-bench of titles) gets you additional  extra income coming in (nice). Or big income if you can master list-building.

Criteria for the review

Here's the ideal we should shoot from:

• shopping cart - can you sell multiple books without leaving your site?
• marketplace - is there a central area where people can discover your books?
• individual widgets per book - can you sell the book directly from your landing page?
• ability to bundle - can you put multiple books together in the same package?
• multiple formats - how about selling epub, PDF, and mobi/azw files together?
• discounts for book - the ability to run specials for any particular book
• social discounts for sharing - direct incentive for people to evangelize your books...
• ability to sign up affiliates - for the entrepreneurs in your list, who can make any percentage of your booksales you choose, so you can get new buyers and expand your list.

The short summary (we're running long enough here that I don't want to have to draw up a spreadsheet on all these):

Ganxy is a great one. No marketplace, no affiliate sales. Discounts are just by changing the price. Main problem is that they can't take files bigger than 2MB. Best advantage is being able to bundle with other authors through their platform and split payments. Ganxy can set individual book promo into a Facebook tab. Your "campaign" can collect email subscriptions, which can be emailed from Ganxy site, and you can export and import to your autoresponder. (Note: tabs don't show up on mobile, so you have to link to them directly.)

Gumroad is good as well. No marketplace. No affiliate sales. Very similar to Ganxy. Biggest problem is that they can only give you a script file - which isn't accepted by all blog platforms. Only allows your own bundles.

Payhip can take huge files, They have discounts, social discounts, and affiliates. They also have good analytics and allow you to email your customers. No marketplace. Only bundle your own books. You can put a trailer or audio file into that book description, which can improve conversions.

Sellfy has most that Payhip does (only book image, no video/audio) plus a rudimentary marketplace. They have the same problem with only giving you a script for embedding on your site. What they do best is to integrate a full bookstore on your Facebook page.

This then leaves two standing.

• Payhip goes onto your book landing page.
• Treat Sellfy as another distributor and set up a complete bookstore on Facebook where you can direct your list and new buyers as well.

This is a very short summary of each. I recommend you visit and try out all of them to make your own decision. Won't cost you anything except your time.

Choose wisely.

What these small providers accomplish that even Amazon can't

Did you note that you can include audio and video in your book bundle? Other than Ganxy's 2MB limit per file, most of these will take right up to 200MB individual files. And no particular limit on the amount of files you can include.

You can't bundle anywhere on the Big distributors. You can't include anything but ebooks - and only one version. Smashwords and Leanpub will generate other versions for you and offer all the main ones. But that's only ebooks.

How about selling all the ebook versions, plus opening chapters of the audiobook and the video trailer - all in one package for the same or just-higher price of the ebook alone?

Wouldn't that keep people coming back to you?

And that's the deal: keep your list happy with value they can't get with the Big distributors, while you continue to get sales from those other guys - you are leveraging those who join your list with incredible value, and are getting that extra pay you've earned.

More control over your own income by delivering better value to your closest fans - who are able to bring you more fans by selling your books for you.

Yea, I know - pinch me.But this is very real.

Again - check it out for yourself. Can't hardly turn down a stack of pancakes like this...

[Update: Added links above. Noted that we haven't talked about payment. Most of the on-site plans deal with immediate payments, not the lag which are standard in the industry (to account for refunds.) Your analytics also occur immediately (and more granularity than Amazon or others provide.) Instant income is always nice to have - even if you have to drive the traffic to them yourself. The upside is that these are sales you may not have had otherwise, since they are visitors to your site. Biggest advantage is providing value for your list.]

[Update2: Found that you can do a neat trick on Sellfy - by giving a 100% discount for someone sharing your book on Facebook or Twitter. Cute. You can also do this with Payhip - which is more applicable to your own list and direct selling. Sellfy also allows direct email link in your description, so you can have them come to that book's landing page for more data - something most other distributors won't let you do...]

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