Third Millennium Publishing charges a setup fee and a fee on each book sold. What does this money pay for?
The initial fee ($300 for hosting one book for two years, and a declining scale for subsequent books) goes to pay for the labor required to set up your section of the website. This includes preparing your manuscript for publication, building the summary page, description page, and biography page, and setting up the money collection service. It also goes to defray the cost of adding your book to our site. Internet Service Providers charge for two things: storage and throughput. Adding your book to our web site increases it size, which in turn, costs us money. The recurring fee ($1 per book sold) goes to cover the impact your sales have on our throughput capacity. In other words, when people come into the website to look at your book, data is exchanged over the INTERNET. When they buy one of the electronic editions of your book, that book must be transmitted by the ISP to the customer. Since Third Millennium Publishing pays for the number of bytes it transmits each month; the recurring $
