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Google Play has very lengthy Terms and Conditions. I feel like if I go with them I will give up everything. Did you read the 'contract' in it's entirety??
What Polenth said.
Personally, I've tried Select a few times. Even a publisher (with my permission) put a story of mine in Select. It's never been worth it. I even had a short story sit right behind Wool on certain "free download" subgenre lists…and the sales effect was negligible.
There are two major things you won't get by not opting for Select: 1. Your book won't receive the ability to have 5 "free" days per 3-month period. 2. You won't be in the Kindle Lending Library, which pays authors money for borrows.
But you can upload anywhere and everywhere else. Google Play just updated its interface, for example (but they discount your title by ±25%, so to avoid violating your terms on other vendors, it's best to add to the price tag there).
I'm a huge Smashwords fan—they're my primary vendor for shopping—but Draft 2 Digital is fast getting far more popular as a distributor. (I only uploaded a few things to them last night; I'm still using Smashwords for its own store and for the vendors only it distributes to, but I'm using Draft 2 Digital for Apple, because I find the Apple Producer program more of a headache than I want to deal with, even though I have an Apple computer.)
I upload directly to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Drive Thru Fiction (for my speculative fiction), and Xinxii. Technically, Scribd can be used to sell files, too, but I haven't heard of anyone selling over there. It's also possible to sell files directly, using services like Ganxy or Ejunkie.
Google Play has very lengthy Terms and Conditions. I feel like if I go with them I will give up everything. Did you read the 'contract' in it's entirety??
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