When selfpublishing you either submit your creation as epub OR it's converted into epub by a distributor, a dedicated publishing company, who finally distrubutes it to online shops like amazon, book shops, google play etc.
In this respect the distributor does a bit of marketing the eBook in dpub format.
Do we have similar distributors for pdf beyond the one(s) given here: A nice platform for selling PDF books like Google Play. Any suggestions? ? Submit as pdf, distribute widely as pdf.
One simple solution is to sell them on payhip. Easy to set up, no cost, special digital watermarking for PDFs, high earnings, NO DRM. (A similar solution is gumroad, but I prefer payhip).
The challenge -- and it's a gigantic one -- is persuading people to buy digital content from a platform people are unfamiliar with. For the record, none of the major vendors (like Amazon, Apple, Google Play) accept PDFs for sale -- although Kindle has a way to export pdf into some fixed layout format.
I realize that some content is much harder to produce for epub, but that is the international standard for ebooks -- it's designed especially for multiple sizes of displays. Also, epubs can be easily converted to PDF (using Calibre and other tools).
