Why the file, the price, and the payment all work the way they do
Occasional writing on DRM-free publishing, selling direct, and the arithmetic of selling a book without a middleman. RSS.
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Your bookshop should be on your own domain, and here is the unglamorous reason
Not branding. A platform that lists its sellers' storefronts in its own sitemap is competing with them in search results for their own book titles — and every link you earn is credited to whoever owns the hostname.
August 26, 2026 · 4 min read
Direct sales versus the retailers, without the cheerleading
Selling from your own shop keeps roughly three times as much per copy. It also sells fewer copies. Here is the arithmetic on both sides, and the point where the crossover actually happens.
August 23, 2026 · 4 min read
How to sell ebooks from your own website, end to end
The whole job is four decisions — where the money lands, what the reader gets, what happens when they lose the link, and whose domain it all happens on. Here is each one, with the trade-offs nobody puts on a pricing page.
August 20, 2026 · 5 min read
What the royalty split actually costs an independent author
Run the arithmetic on a $9.99 ebook through the usual channels, then through a shop that takes nothing but the payment. The gap is most of a living.
August 13, 2026 · 3 min read
What actually happens when you pay for a book in bitcoin
A walkthrough of the ninety seconds between clicking checkout and the coins leaving your wallet — addresses, locked rates, confirmations, and who is holding what at each step.
August 10, 2026 · 4 min read
You are renting your library and calling it a purchase
The button says Buy. What you get is a revocable licence tied to one account, one app, and one company's continued existence. Here is what changes when the button means what it says.
August 4, 2026 · 4 min read