Re: Why?

No, EPIC did not cough up a grand to be a Fictionwise store.  It was 
free, and continues to be free.

As I explained in a previous post, all that is done is a publisher, 
who has at least one EPIC author, is selected and that puts all the 
publisher's books in the store.

Dan



--- In [email protected], "auwg" <auwg@...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Tony Burton" wrote:
> > 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!"
> 
> An author that vain or naive?
> Do such critters really exist? :)
> 
> Besides, they list a ton of mainstream authors who can't possibly be
> members of Epic 'cuz they died before Epic came along, so I think
> their author list simply very deliberately excludes certain
> contemporary -- but non-Epic-member -- authors whose works are
> otherwise available through Fictionwise.
> 
> Epic coughed up a grand (Fictionwise fee) to set up a branded
> sub-store. Seems to me it would make more sense to front their own
> authors' titles in some unique and prominent manner, but without
> avoiding selling whatever else anyone might want from the main pile.
> That would just send customers elsewhere and cost Epic sales 
commissions.
> 
> > 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
> 
> Yeah, similar, but not quite the same.
> 
> Big shrug to all of it, really.
> I was just curious why someone running an online sub-store might
> actively avoid the possibility of making a sale.
> Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
> Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
> http://www.AbintraPress.com
> My Fictionwise Ratings: http://tinyurl.com/26v45
>




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