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HUGE Thank you to another author who tipped me off about Gumroad! (Didn't know if you wanted to be publicly thanked since it was in PM).
Just set up my account and been exploring. Very cool that it is easy to set up and has a 30-Day step-by-step challenge to help digital creators build an audience. I read through a number of those days and there is VERY valuable information in there for all of us! I loved the clear information on making a landing page, for example!
I love that it will collect the purchaser's information for me (not their purchasing information, just address and email and name) so that I can say . . . send a holiday postcard to my readers etc.
Also, it makes handing VAT and sales tax pretty easy. Finally there is their fee: 5% +$.25, so on a $1 book, you make $.70. You can also give discounts and coupons to readers.
Now, the dilemma becomes how do I leverage growing my site and sales base WITHOUT cannibalizing my Amazon and other vendor sales (since I'm not ready to do that right now), and the BEST answer I can come up with is to start writing a few exclusive books or put together exclusive bundles for readers on my site. That's my plan, especially for shorter works that I know my readership would love to have, but doesn't necessarily make sense to sell them on the main sites.
Just set up my account and been exploring. Very cool that it is easy to set up and has a 30-Day step-by-step challenge to help digital creators build an audience. I read through a number of those days and there is VERY valuable information in there for all of us! I loved the clear information on making a landing page, for example!
I love that it will collect the purchaser's information for me (not their purchasing information, just address and email and name) so that I can say . . . send a holiday postcard to my readers etc.
Also, it makes handing VAT and sales tax pretty easy. Finally there is their fee: 5% +$.25, so on a $1 book, you make $.70. You can also give discounts and coupons to readers.
Now, the dilemma becomes how do I leverage growing my site and sales base WITHOUT cannibalizing my Amazon and other vendor sales (since I'm not ready to do that right now), and the BEST answer I can come up with is to start writing a few exclusive books or put together exclusive bundles for readers on my site. That's my plan, especially for shorter works that I know my readership would love to have, but doesn't necessarily make sense to sell them on the main sites.