For a while now, I have been selling books containing my work through E-bay at discounts from retail prices. This has worked well for a while, now. I started out selling on E-bay long before I was published and have made a lot of profitable sales over many years. Unfortunately, that may not continue for much longer.
E-bay has made many changes over the years. Some of those changes have been positive (creation of Paypal) but others have been negative. Always these changes have been in the direction of making it harder to sell independently. I have stayed with them because the positives always outweighed the negatives when it came to sales but that is no longer the case.
A while back E-bay made the short sighted decision to sell Paypal; no doubt for a lot of money. Their break with Paypal has not worked out as well as they thought and in what I think is a childish decision they are breaking totally with their former payment system.
As a seller, I am now not allowed to accept Paypal payments; period. E-bay now insists on direct payments to them that they will distribute as they see fit.
So gone are the instant payments to my Paypal account allowing me to ship nearly as instantly. To say I believe this decision to be short sighted is a gross understatement. I won’t bore anyone with the new hoops I am being forced to jump through to maintain my status as a seller but I will say that I am not sure how much longer I will be selling on E-bay.
If it comes to pass that I am forced off their platform, I will sincerely miss it. I have sold a lot of books there. And , before that a lot of games and models when I was in the hobby business.
The good news is I can still sell books published by Airship 27, Pro Se Press or Moonstone Books that contain anything written by me through this site. If anyone wants any book containing my works, just contact me through this website. I will start checking it more often as of today. Once you contact me, we can work through Paypal or I will accept a mailed check.
I am now looking into direct publishing through Kindle on Amazon.com for certain future works. While I love New Pulp and will continue writing for Airship 27 and other publishers, there area lot of other stories and entire books that I intend to write that might work a whole lot better on Kindle. More on that as it develops.
On the writing front I have just finished a new pulp story and will be submitting it soon; Another classic character from the 30’s and 40’s with a name everyone will recognize. New stuff I will be working on this spring will be alternate history stuff for my Zeppelin World and maybe some historic fiction/ horror.
So, if you are looking for any of my works, contact me through this website and we’ll get you the books you need.
Until next time; Happy reading!
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