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I haven’t seen a big announcement about it, but last week, while making changes to a few of my ebooks distributed through Amazon, I noticed the following:

Personally, I immediately switched all my titles as shown: Do not enable digital rights management.

Hit the ‘publish’ button, and now they’re all DRM free at Amazon. It only took a couple of days.

Since people are still talking about Kindle versions of ebooks being DRMed, I think this has slipped under the radar. Most of those who choose Amazon as a distribution platform likely aren’t aware they now have a choice.

Just thought I’d try spreading the word a bit.

Basically, this is a test of a new sort of ‘business model’.

I will release a free to download, sponsored/ad-supported version of Resurgence in PDF, DRM free format with a Creative Commons license (free to share/attribution/non-commercial/no alteration/deriatives) if there are people willing to donate to make such a version available.

The donations will be my compensation as the author.

Resurgence is a short story/longer flash fiction piece of 2, 263 word count. It’s sci fi/fantasy.

Compensation amount is $ 113.15 ( five (5) cents per word).

Donate $5 or more, and you’ll be listed at the front of the sponsored version as one of the people who’ve made it available for free download. Your name and/or web site link, whichever you choose. The sponsored version will be available here, at my imprint site, and at Smashwords, and hopefully on other people’s web sites shortly thereafter.

The unsponsored version will remain available for purchase for those readers who’d rather not have ‘ads’ in their ebooks (it’s only 99 cents at full cover price).

If the response is good, I’ll do the same for more titles with different sponsorship options.

Do you want to set Resurgence free? Donate!

Part of Amazon’s TOS for the DTP was that the publisher wasn’t to set a cover price higher there than through other retail distribution outlets.

In other words, you couldn’t distribute your title there for $10 and at Smashwords or elsewhere for $5.

On January 15th, the wording of that particular section was changed to:

(b) the lowest price at which you list or offer any digital or physical edition of the Digital Book on any website or other sales channel;

And that change came about after DTP forum postings asking for clarification on the previous wording, as some authors want to offer their titles at lower cover prices on their personal sites/blogs.

Reasons for doing so should be obvious: most of us are trying to build a readership, and we earn more per sale selling direct through our own sites using PayPal or something similar as our payment processor than we do selling through the various distribution channels like Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, and so on.

I’ve seen some authors who have ebooks available on Amazon for $7-$10, and those same titles available through Smashwords or their own site for $5.

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