We have a distribution licensing agreement with a company called Dial-a-Book for many of the chapters. They in turn have agreements in place with the publishers authorizing them to distribute these excerpts through our site along with their other distribution partners. I assume that your publisher does have a contract in place with Dial-a-Book. The intent is to provide promotion, of course.

We only post chapters where we have permission. If an author posts a chapter, the site’s terms authorize us to display it. (Of course, that’s why they are doing it!)

Regarding tracking, we do provide stats showing the number of times the book is read on the site or by email. As well, for authors that take the next step and sponsor their title, we let them know when sales come through our Amazon link. Naturally we don’t know when someone clicks off our site to the author’s site and buys from there or buys the book in a store after seeing it in on BookDaily.

Thank you!

Scott Wolf

What does this mean? I notice one of my books is listed. How do you get the sample? Do you need permission from author or publisher? And if an author joins, is there a mechanism for tracking response?