I now have all of my books off of Smashwords and onto Draft 2 Digital.
I did this over the course of February, and it wasn’t that bad. It took time, but their wasn’t much pain in formatting. Really, I needed to update some of those books.
So what can you do to get your books on D2D? I’d start with one. That’s what I did, doing Tarot: The Mystery and the Mystique first. That was my trial run, and after about a week the book was live on all channels.
The problem with D2D is that some channels are slower to publish than others, and a book won’t be fully published until all of those sales channels are listed, like this:
I did this over the course of February, and it wasn’t that bad. It took time, but their wasn’t much pain in formatting. Really, I needed to update some of those books.
So what can you do to get your books on D2D? I’d start with one. That’s what I did, doing Tarot: The Mystery and the Mystique first. That was my trial run, and after about a week the book was live on all channels.
The problem with D2D is that some channels are slower to publish than others, and a book won’t be fully published until all of those sales channels are listed, like this:
When your book is finished publishing, you get an email like this:
What this means is that it got published to one of those 6 distributors you see there. Some are faster than others, and some books get to all of them in a couple days, others it takes a week. Oftentimes it’s one distributor that’s a bit slow.
You get an email when it goes to each one, so you can look for the logo changes, like this one:
You get an email when it goes to each one, so you can look for the logo changes, like this one:
It took me about a week or two to get a sale, but by the end of February I had $16.77 in royalties coming my way off of 4 eBook sales. One thing I didn’t really like is that I couldn’t see which books had sold, not until the report came out the next month.
I realized later that I was just making a mistake and could see those. Still, I’m done now – I have all my books off Smashwords but my perma-free novel Lightning. I also have all my fiction in Amazon exclusively now, because that’s where it sells. Yeah, it never sold on the other retailers, just my nonfiction.
Go figure. Anyways, I’m happy with this setup and look forward to my first monthly payment soon.
Thanks for reading!
I realized later that I was just making a mistake and could see those. Still, I’m done now – I have all my books off Smashwords but my perma-free novel Lightning. I also have all my fiction in Amazon exclusively now, because that’s where it sells. Yeah, it never sold on the other retailers, just my nonfiction.
Go figure. Anyways, I’m happy with this setup and look forward to my first monthly payment soon.
Thanks for reading!
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