Never Pay Anybody for Ebook Distribution. Except Me.
It has recently come to my attention that at least one major publisher is paying third-party services to post ebooks of their backlist. Â
Traditional publishers do a lot of things right, but this is seriously an incredibly stupid thing for them to do. Â
Posting an ebook for sale on Amazon, Nook, Kobo, or anywhere else is ridonkulously easy. Â Like so easy that anybody--even that summer intern from Sarah Lawrence who's never had a job and has no idea what working is but who is the managing editor's niece-- can do it. Â
I know that there are services that charge self-published authors for this service, and I figured these were just swindlers taking advantage of the naivete of people new to the digital publishing arena.Â
But apparently major corporations are paying for this service as well.
Nobody should pay for this service. Â But if you are determined to pay money for this service, you should pay me. Â
If you send me a .mobi  .epub versions of your book, I will post them to Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Google Books, and iBooks for only 100 dollars.  (please note: you'll need an ISBN for iBooks, and I don't supply those.)  This will work out to a rate of about 300 bucks an hour for me, which would be awesome and which I could really use and which still makes me cheaper than a lawyer.
You really shouldn't pay me to do this. Â It takes literally 5 minutes per site. Â But if you really feel that you must pay someone for this, at least make it someone who is telling you that this is a stupid service you shouldn't pay for: Â me! Â