This page is intended to provide the information you require in order to decide if it makes sense to take out a Subscription or if it may be better to use the Buy-on-the-fly service.
Please note: whatever method you use, ebod does not store your card information on its servers. As soon as you decide to proceed with a purchase you will be taken to our Card Servicer's 'site and they will handle the process. When the transaction is approved you will be returned to our site and the Servicer will notify us that payment is authorised thus enabling our ftp site to initiate the download processes.
At the close of the download it will be safe to close your connexion with our 'site if you do not want to continue your browsing.
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Buy-on-the-fly. Each purchase is handled as an individual transaction and you will need to provide your card details every time. You pay the amount the author has set for the work and our fee, both of which are shown in the lists. (This way you are aware how much will be paid to the author.) There are no discounts available and no options to negotiate away any "restrictions" encoded into the work by the author.
Subscription. Intended for the avid reader, subscription enables you to download any number of books in a subscription period [the standard length of subscriptions is 6 months] for a one time payment of £100 (about C$220, US$ 150, €150, DMk 300, FFr1,000 etc). So, taking 6 books "fixes" their cost @ £16.66 each; 10 books @ £10; 12 books £8.33 and so on. Books as used here refers to each download so 2 copies of a work equates to 2 books.
Additionally, paid-up Subscribers are automatically added to our eMailing list and therefore receive the up-to-date lists of works and advices of new works and authors as they come on-line. They have access to the discussion groups and are offered direct eMail access to the authors. They will also be invited to become reviewers and have their observations "posted" to the on-line listings pages.