Essay on the background to, and advantages of, creative commons licences:

http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/11/cory-doctorow-creative-commons.html

Terry

Very interesting post thankyou.

What in many ways is a difficult question to answer - we at http://forum.whiffyskunk.com provide a solution to getting your work out there. In cases such as 6 poem anthologies or such (perhaps a few of your book or even the book itself) we sell your poece of work in its own right and we can on occasions with writers that agree say three - offer a joint project where we sell three writers books together for one price.

On whiffyskunk the authors receive an email everytime their ebook sells directly to their email accounts linked to the automated payment mechanism.

WE ARE THE ONES THAT receive the royalties in regards to your book sales. We see it as it's your book you should get most of the money. So for example if your book sells aat $4.95 we take one dollar - $5.95 we take $1.50 - $6.95 and we take 2 dollars.

We can get your work out their and what we do to do it iss to offer two free books that we have resell rights to to help us get your name out there.

We can also do this with authors on the site that are also wanting to to get their name out there. So we would sell your books individually but also as a one price three book offer.

If your interested then come along and take a look at our services. Remember please we are not computer programmers we are publishers so if the site appearance alarms you lol then so be it. But have you ever walked into a tidy antiquarian bookshop ?
This is how we conceive ourselves and we know what we are doing truly.

I've seen pictures of the tiddiest writers work spaces you could imagine but hardly ever have I read good quality work from their machines. I've seen the messiest scruffiest and most burnt out machines that people could ever imagine and I've had writers that can write that willl never replace them. One even used his printer as an ashtray.

Funny World we live in ...!

regards
J

Do you offer proofreading and editing services to your writers?

Dee

Dee,

I sincerely hope not. I counted 28 typos, punctuation and grammatical errors in Jules12345's post (and that was without giving it close attention). Considering she's selling a publishing service, you'd have to be a scruffy, burnt-out, author indeed to consider using it.

The other thing that worries me is it appears as if I'd have to throw all my papers around the room, set light to my printer and send a photograph of it all before Whiffyskunk are prepared to take my work seriously. Which means I'd have to turn in my Boy Scouts Anal Retentively Tidy badge and I'm just not ready for such a major step, even if it means I'll have to give up writing.

Terry

LOL!

So for example if your book sells aat $4.95 we take one dollar - $5.95 we take $1.50 - $6.95 and we take 2 dollars.

And it's not just the grammar punctuation and spelling that are astray, it seems to me:

"$4.95 we take one dollar" is very nearly 20%; way over normal agency commission, which is normally 10-15% except on overseas sales

"$5.95 we take $1.50" is very nearly 25%

"$6.95 and we take 2 dollars" is very nearly 35%

Think I'll give it a miss, thank you.

Emma

Jules are you a fan of Cormac McCarthy by any chance?

There is another of these online books: www.theladybones.com. It was launched on Facebook last year and released an episode at a time.