Nagwa Malik's Naked Thoughts

Payoneer No Longer Trustworthy, KDP, Smashwords Still Not Able To Facilitate International Authors Payments


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Payoneer, last year suddenly announced a fee on any amount received less than 100 usd, eur and gdb. And it announced that micro amounts would be considered the whole fee. So I got 0 money in my account. After putting a hold on my amazon royalties so that they reached a certain threshold before I let them release the amount to Payoneer account, now, this year Payoneer has announced it will charge 30usd annual fee for all.accounts receiving less than 2000 usd amount in 12 months. Are they crazy?

Now I need to consider shutting down Payoneer which means back to waiting for my money to reach 100usd before kdp can send me a cheque...

Smashwords doesn't even have a proper payment method for its authors. It only has PayPal. How can two self claimed giants in the international publishing industry not have a proper way to pay their authors?

In all of that one good thing occurred today after a week's worth of tension and efforts.

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