selling on wrdpress domain

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    earthsmagic · Member ·

    I upgraded and purchased a domain (paid $22.00) with the understanding that i could sell my own small production of self-published books and now find that I can only have a donate now button on my site, which is totally inappropriate. I spent so much time trying to work out why the button wouldn’t work. I feel as if I”ve been conned. I will put the donate button there for the time being until I work out what to do.

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    hallluke · Member ·

    Get in touch with staff directly, only they will be able to let you know if selling your own books using wordpress violates the TOS or not. Support is closed for a while but hopefully a moderator will find this thread.

    As far as I can recall the upgrade page makes it quite clear that purchasing and mapping to your own domain name does not allow you to break the TOS in regards to advertising. However you are allowed to review your own books/games/movies and link to amazon or etsy or similar. This is mentioned under affiliate marketing blogs on the types of blogs allowed at wordpress.com support page.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Staff have repeatedly said that authors are allowed to sell their own works via WP.com.

    That does NOT mean WP.com is optimized for ecommerce, NOR does it mean that purchasing an upgrade of any kind applies to anything other than specifically what it says. A new domain is nothing more than a new URL; all the restrictions that were here before are here still.

    You can sell your book with the donation button. Just use a different image on it, like I do on my http://raincoastermedia.com blog, one that doesn’t say Donation, and let people know the cost plus shipping up front. Then, once they send you the money, you mail them the book. You can also sell via Amazon and the affiliate code for your own book should work just fine here. You can have an estore even with the Canadian Post Office, and sometimes your printers will sell books for you via their site There are lots of options; it’s just that they require a bit of a workaround.

    If you’re an author, you should have your own domain anyway, for professional reasons.

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