Comments on: Smashwords-to-B&N: Should there be an “Opt-in”? http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/smashwords-to-bn-should-there-be-an-opt-in/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Coker http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/smashwords-to-bn-should-there-be-an-opt-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1148343 Mark Coker Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:56:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31454#comment-1148343 Steve, I'll take a fresh look at how we can make it more obvious. Thanks, mark Steve, I’ll take a fresh look at how we can make it more obvious.

Thanks,
mark

]]> By: Rob Preece, Publisher http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/smashwords-to-bn-should-there-be-an-opt-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1148342 Rob Preece, Publisher Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:34:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31454#comment-1148342 Not only is there an opt-out, there are great reasons for doing so...like you have the books on BN or Fictionwise already. I opt out of those two but for now am opting into Sony as I haven't been able to close the loop with them on publishing directly through the Sony store. Rob Preece Publisher Not only is there an opt-out, there are great reasons for doing so…like you have the books on BN or Fictionwise already. I opt out of those two but for now am opting into Sony as I haven’t been able to close the loop with them on publishing directly through the Sony store.

Rob Preece
Publisher

]]> By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/smashwords-to-bn-should-there-be-an-opt-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1148341 Steve Jordan Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:28:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31454#comment-1148341 @Mark, First, I didn't ask this because of the glitches... I understand how those things happen, my office is having similar issues. Second, I'm not criticizing or expressing any dissatisfaction... just playing devil's advocate here (so you don't misunderstand my intentions.) I'd looked at the Distribution Information page more than once, and I haven't seen anywhere that it tells me to go to the Distribution Channel Manager page to be able to do an opt-out. (It does describe "Channel Manager," but honestly, I did not make the connection, and I agree I should have been more observant there.) This is obviously why I missed seeing it before. Although that certainly does the job, I just felt having that option on the publishing page as you enter your book, allowing you to opt-in, makes more sense, and is easier to find, than navigating to another page to find it after the fact and opt-out. But maybe that's just me. @Mark,
First, I didn’t ask this because of the glitches… I understand how those things happen, my office is having similar issues. Second, I’m not criticizing or expressing any dissatisfaction… just playing devil’s advocate here (so you don’t misunderstand my intentions.)

I’d looked at the Distribution Information page more than once, and I haven’t seen anywhere that it tells me to go to the Distribution Channel Manager page to be able to do an opt-out. (It does describe “Channel Manager,” but honestly, I did not make the connection, and I agree I should have been more observant there.) This is obviously why I missed seeing it before.

Although that certainly does the job, I just felt having that option on the publishing page as you enter your book, allowing you to opt-in, makes more sense, and is easier to find, than navigating to another page to find it after the fact and opt-out. But maybe that’s just me.

]]> By: Mark Coker http://www.teleread.com/uncategorized/smashwords-to-bn-should-there-be-an-opt-in/comment-page-1/#comment-1148335 Mark Coker Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:07:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=31454#comment-1148335 Steve, there's a clear opt-out in every author's Dashboard via the Channel Manager link, where you can easily opt out of either of our two major retail partners (B&N and Sony), and this link is also documented via the Smashwords Distribution Information page at http://www.smashwords.com/distribution From a policy and process perspective, we provide authors at least two days advance notice via email before we activate a new retail channel partner. Re: B&N, when we first announced the relationship, we informed all Smashwords authors they should expect glitches along the way. You should expect to see more glitches as we add additional retail partners. Steve, there’s a clear opt-out in every author’s Dashboard via the Channel Manager link, where you can easily opt out of either of our two major retail partners (B&N and Sony), and this link is also documented via the Smashwords Distribution Information page at http://www.smashwords.com/distribution

From a policy and process perspective, we provide authors at least two days advance notice via email before we activate a new retail channel partner.

Re: B&N, when we first announced the relationship, we informed all Smashwords authors they should expect glitches along the way. You should expect to see more glitches as we add additional retail partners.

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