Sea Lion Press expands beyond Amazon

[Meadow]

Discuss our announcement here.

 

[RyanF]

A good move, not sure about the market share of Amazon vs. other platforms (though I'd presume the former have the lion's share) but it will be beneficial to gain exposure to a much wider audience.

 

[moth]

A sensible move, for sure. While obviously those platforms are a lot smaller than Amazon, it certainly makes sense to move onto them.

 

[varyar]

Very nice - I wish you good sales across the platforms.

 

[I Saw A Red Sky]

I buy e-books pretty much exclusively on Kobo, so this is a welcome change.

 

[Md139115]

One step closer to world domination.

And I’m starting to think it creepy that my phone auto-predicted most of what I was going to write.

 

[George Kearton]

Wonderful news - well done Tom and, as always, thanks for all your efforts on our behalf!

 

[Skinny87]

Discuss our announcement here.

Always a good move, @Meadow, Amazon has a lot of dubious business practices that mean diversifying is essential, I think

 

[napoleon IV]

I think this is a good move, although I'll confess that the only one of these I've heard of is Nook.

 

[Sideways]

This is cool.

What ebook platforms are other people using? I hate getting them on Amazon and would be happy to switch. This feels very much like a @Skinny87 question *sends up the Tank signal*

 

[Skinny87]

This is cool.

What ebook platforms are other people using? I hate getting them on Amazon and would be happy to switch. This feels very much like a @Skinny87 question *sends up the Tank signal*

Nook and Kobo are the main competitors as far as I'm aware, but beware that with Barnes & Noble likely to go into administration soon, Nook is probably going to be dead in the water if not removed completely.

 

[Thande]

I didn't know Nook was still going to be honest - IIRC it was big in the mid-2000s in America before Amazon got going, but then it got squashed like Netscape was by Internet Explorer.

Kobo used to be in Waterstone's but they've been quiet for a while as well.

 

[Skinny87]

There's been something of a push in indie circles, especially amongst RPG sites, to have either multiple options when purchasing a title (.mobi, .nook etc) or to go straight to pdf

 

[Tabac Iberez]

I for one welcome a chance to not have Amazon take a third off my list price before the money starts heading our way.

 

[Dom]

This is fantastic, Tom

 

[George Kearton]

How will payments from these 'new' sources fit in (or not) with existing 'Payday' arrangements? And what percentage of cover price will they take?

 

[Tabac Iberez]

How will payments from these 'new' sources fit in (or not) with existing 'Payday' arrangements? And what percentage of cover price will they take?

I think we'll be getting PM's when this becomes a concern, but I'm equally curious in this. I'm pretty sure Meadow doesn't want us discussing our pay scales in public though.

 

[George Kearton]

I think we'll be getting PM's when this becomes a concern, but I'm equally curious in this. I'm pretty sure Meadow doesn't want us discussing our pay scales in public though.

Quite agree.....

 

[Indicus]

Apple Books? Well, that's great!

 

[Tabac Iberez]

Apple Books? Well, that's great!

Ehhh, I really don't want to see what their take off our list prices are. Most Sealion books are $3-9 and frankly unless you're buying print we the authors get our slice of the pie last.