How can I read my book on Kindle?

After purchase you will be sent a download link for your book. It will always include an ePub file at minimum but possibly some other formats as well such as PDF or mobi. All three of these are compatible with kindle. Simply go to amazon.com/sendtokindle then drag and drop the file into the box and hit send. Your book will now be available on any of your reading devices.

What is our profit sharing schedule?

Our profit sharing schedule is as follows: The credit card processor takes their cut which is normally 2.7% + .30 but can vary based on currency used, international, and type of payment. After that Payment is split between author or creator of the content and The Quivering Quill at a rate of 92/8. Yes, you read that correctly. After payment processing the author will get 92% of the funds with us keeping only 8%. How we will do this is by running extremely LEAN. However, this also means that there is a limit to the amount of proactive advertising we will be able to do. Authors/ creators will be responsible for helping drive traffic to the site.

I’m an author or creator, how do I list things for sale on your site?

Currently we do not have a way for authors/ creators to setup or manage their own content. Please email us at support@thequiveringquill.com

Is there anything more I can do to help support the site and the authors?

ABSOLUTELY! Due to how payment processors work the larger your purchase the more of the money WE (The site and the authors) get. If you plan on getting multiple works make sure to get them as a single purchase or, if you just want the one for now but more later, buy a gift card for yourself or others!

What all of my data can you see when I make a purchase?

Our credit card processing is handled by squarespace, none of your private information is handled by us directly though we are able to see billing information and the last 4 of the card used after a sale is made, this holds true for any business that takes credit card payments.

As an author, do I still own the rights to my work after posting it with you?

Absolutely! All authors/ creators retain the full rights to their works and are allowed to take down their content whenever they wish. You are also free to post your content elsewhere. This is of course dependent on the other site also allowing you to do this. So if you are already published with KDP Select for example, you can not post your work here as well. There could be case by case situations where this does not hold true but only if it was discussed prior to the content going live. A possible example being an audiobook being made with the funding coming from The Quivering Quill. In situations such as that the website reserves the right to recover it’s financial expenses prior to the content being wholly owned by the original author. In the case that something is co-authored or has more than one rights owner, again an audiobook with profit sharing worked out privately between both the author and narrator, we require permission from both parties to both post and take down the content.

This is less a question and more a general PSA about checkout

The fees that we are charged for processing payments, in order from least fees to most, are: Bank transfer (but your order would have to be a minimum of $250 to choose this option), the built in credit card processing option, apple pay, and then paypal. In fact, paypal’s fees are nearly double the built in CC processor system’s are. That said, I understand that there seems to be an issue for some people with the CC system as it seems to mainly work for North America and the UK, so it will remain an option.