Re: eBook Vendor List

--- In [email protected], Brenna Lyons wrote:
> However, I don't think Fictionwise is going anywhere, since B&N is making money there. They still take new books from publishers already established with them.

I dunno. They've stopped or dropped several reader-enticing sales programs. That they aren't accepting new pubbers reminds me too much of other places that quietly ended their existences in increments of closures.

> And that means they can drop the (what is it?) $15 per title they charge for loading new books. Or keep that as an option for established publishers that want to use it but let all publishers choose to drop it and just load what we've created.

Their converter made titles available in a standard suite of formats.
Individual pubbers might only support a few formats.
I've found it convenient to send up an RTF and a cover pic and call it done.

> I'd hazard that ARe/OmniLit is poised to take their place, should they default. Of all the sites that take multiple formats (I don't just mean 4 formats...I mean upwards of 10 formats), ARe/O already excels in sales numbers, compared to the others. Only Fictionwise usually beats them out for me...when my books can get to FW.

I signed up with Omnilit last year, but I've been letting Lightning Source supply them. That will likely change soon because while Omni technically carries all my titles, their search system can't always find them.

> Grumbling unkind things about B&N. The Pendergrasts never would have let this happen, when they were at the helm.

Tend to agree.
Sometimes it seems to me that BN is anti-success.
What's happening with FW smells too much like what happened to B. Dalton.
Ed
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com



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