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I want to buy my first ebooks and I have two goals: don't pay Amazon, and give the largest possible cut to the authors. Is there something like Bandcamp for ebooks?

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[–] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I like the sound of that! Let's see...

No, not in any of the (first 30) stores. The author's website only lists amazon, audible, and apple books, so they may not have another channel for selling. I'll send them an email and see.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do they have a patreon or similar? Maybe your best bet is to pirate it and give them the money that way.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Oho, they do. Good idea.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm a writer and have an ebook. Also accept support on Patreon. I wouldn't mind having more places to publish my ebooks other then Amazon. I do publish on Barnes and Noble, as well has Google books. I willing to offer DMI free.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Reach out to the author, unfortunately a lot of small publishers or self published are exclusive to Amazon.