So I chose to distribute some e-book copies of Never Ceese through Smashwords. I learned that if you qualify for premium distribution your book will show up for sale on B&N as a Nook, whether you want it to or not. Well I don't want it to because B&N accepts returns of e-books which should be a function of the publisher and they make a nook available to their lending library where nooks are given away for free for an extended period of time, again a decision to be made by the publisher. So NO I don't want my nook on B&N. Due to this problem, I pulled my books from Smashwords. Here's how Smashwords handles me no longer using them as a distributor. Here's the link: Never Ceese
At the bottom of the page under reviews it reads: This book is no longer published, and is no longer accepting reviews.
LIE! That doesn't even make sense. And it would make even less sense if they add no longer published at Smashwords. No book is published at Smashwords. Smashwords is a dang distributor not a publisher. The book is published and sold through my PUBLISHER. So are all the e-book versions now. Just go to Black Bed Sheet Books to purchase any version you want.
Smashwords says all day long, "oh, we're not the publisher. You are. We're just a distributor." So which is it, Boneheads?" I'd appreciate it if you'd remove the inaccurate statement off the bottom of my book page on your site.
Noooo!! Wait Jon, I totally missed that last comment you made! I think that's an excellent train of thought. More than that, we can "edumacate" them at the same time as to just what's happening with their e-books when they use these other avenues. Hmmm . . . .
ReplyDeleteMay just give us the edge we need to prove that the industry has changed and so should the rules!!!
ReplyDeleteYeah! Down with the man!!! Down with the man!!! :)
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