Re: Why?

MY guess is that they view representation in their store as a benefit to their members, so 
they only place the books of members in their proprietary storefront.  Eminently logical, if 
they are using placement as a selling point: "One of the benefits of EPIC membership is to 
have your book sold in our online Fictionwise store!"

On my ezine web site, I have a page where books from subscribers are placed and 
available for sale via Amazon links.  It's a benefit of subscription to have your book placed 
there and available to readers for purchase.  If you are not a subscriber, your book is not 
represented.  Similar thinking, I guess.

Tony Burton

--- In [email protected], "auwg" <auwg@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Following up on something someone told to me in private email, I went
> to both stores mentioned above and ran searches on 4 indie authors,
> myself included.
> All 4 indie authors' titles appeared at the Knowbetter Fictionwise store.
> Only one of them (the only Epic member) appeared at the Epic
> Fictionwise store.
> This would seem to mean that Epic's store is preventing potential
> sales by filtering out the works of non-Epic authors.
> If so, why?
> ... And this is NOT meant as a criticism.
> Evading potential sales is still legal, AFIK.
> I just figured there must be some kind of a reason worth more than any
> successfully evaded sales.
> Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
> Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
> http://www.AbintraPress.com
> My Fictionwise Ratings: http://tinyurl.com/26v45
>





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