The relaunch of a pivoted Vook/Booklr/Byliner under the new name Pronoun.com that was announced in May is now live, at least for “early access” authors. The company’s author terms are posted; they require exclusive distribution to Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play as a group while authors work with them, but promise to pay through all receipts, with no conversion, posting or distribution fees — plus one free ISBN. For now they capture a bit of a float — paying “sixty days after the end of each financial quarter,” while promising that “we’re moving to a monthly payment schedule very soon.” […]
