Best place to buy ebooks other than Amazon? (sh.itjust.works)

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I want to buy my first ebooks and I have two goals: don't pay Amazon, and give the largest possible cut to the authors. Is there something like Bandcamp for ebooks?

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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 10 points 6 days ago

How to make sure more of your book money goes to authors.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago

The biggest difference in book quality, IMHO, is a good editor. I honestly think I'd feel it would be fair if the editor and the author split the profit pretty evenly; maybe 60/40. I'm not an author, but I've read plenty of books which clearly did not have one (or had a terrible one), and they're painful. Editors are the unsung heroes of the publishing industry.