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Paula Weiss's avatar

I allow people to purchase books from my website or from platforms such as Amazon (Draft to Digital makes your ebook available from endless platforms). Some of my readers have philosophical issues with enriching Amazon. However, the vast majority of buyers use Amazon to buy my books, which is fine. It saves me the trouble of going to the post office to mail them.

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Paula Weiss's avatar

You don’t mention the expense of mailing your books, so isn’t profit per book from your website lower than the amount you state?

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Alina Adams's avatar

Ebooks only.

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Paula Weiss's avatar

I didn’t know you could mail your own ebooks. That’s interesting.

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Alina Adams's avatar

They pay and they download it right off the site. It's one of the features the developer added to my revamped website.

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Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel's avatar

I run a book club and we're reading "My Mother's Secret." It's excellent! But why do you call yourself a literary loser when you're clearly a winner?

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Alina Adams's avatar

Aw, that's so sweet. I started this Substack when, in one year, I lost my publisher and my agent, and was basically starting my career all over again from Square One. I hope you enjoy "My Mother's Secret!" I love to pop into bookclubs to discuss via Zoom, if you're ever interested!

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Elizabeth Kerri Mahon's avatar

I'm so glad that I went to school in the 1970s when most public schools in NYC were terrible apart from Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant. It feels like it was much less competitive back then. Also, I went to a really tiny private school. And yes, Amazon!

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Alina Adams's avatar

Where'd you go?

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Elizabeth Kerri Mahon's avatar

St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's from 1st through 12th grade. The school closed the high school in 1992. Now it's just nursery through 8th grade.

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Alina Adams's avatar

I never knew it had a high school! I'm on the UWS, so I know it!

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Kenny Tan's avatar

Amazon!

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