It seems that the technology is to solve some issues and make our life easier. This is valid for everyone, including the authors.
A novel platform allows us to publish our own electronic books or ebooks without using intermediaries.
We can use PayHip to upload our ebook and sell it, without having to be associated with a publisher or having to go through the Amazon filters.
When the internet allows us to get much closer to the culture of DIY (do it yourself), books can not be left aside either. To publish a publication is necessary an interesting initial investment that usually can only be done when we associate with a publisher.
Some authors manage to raise money independently, but these are exceptional cases, and they are not the norm. The Internet helps us reach more readers, that's why PayHip is a very interesting tool.
Let's review the features of PayHip so we can see how it works and, if we are interested, register for a free account. This is very easy, and only takes a few minutes. Basically, PayHip is an e-commerce platform that allows you to sell ebooks directly to the consumer, using a link, and PayPal.
The author only has to upload the document to start selling through the most important social networks, without worrying about anything else: the service is responsible for storage, payment processing - PayPal is used - and the digital delivery of the product to the buyers.
One of the "wonders" of PayHip is that it is completely free. We are used to having sales platforms carry a small commission for their work as intermediaries, but in this case, all transactions are free and the author will receive 100 percent of what users have paid for the book. In the future, some Premium features may be introduced, but even then the basic issues of the service would continue to cost nothing.
Another of the benefits of the service is that it has no limitations on the format in which the ebooks must be: we can upload to a compressed file with different versions, which does not matter. PayHip will store it anyway. Finally, another of the things that most interested us is the possibility of previewing the book before buying it, in the same way as Amazon.
From what we've been seeing, PayHip is a very simple platform that does not require much knowledge - for old-school writers. In order to upload a book, we just have to complete the fields of file, name, price, cover of the book, and a description. Super simple:
PayHip is not only useful for books: it can also be used to sell publications such as digital magazines and fanzines. All this, to be paid with PayPal, without storing credit card data, and allowing security so that the authors remain calm that nobody will download your book without having paid before.
It is an interesting alternative for applicants who do not yet have too many resources to make an edit, or perhaps as a way to raise funds to do a physical edit.
register for free here
