Exciting news! Draft2Digital and Bookshop.org have joined forces. This partnership offers indie authors expanded distribution options while championing independent bookstores. A positive step for the literary community! #indieauthor #selfpublishing #Draft2Digital #BookshopOrg #indiebooks
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News Podcast: Bookshop.org Expands Into E-Books, Audio, and Print with Major New Partnerships
On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway focuses on a wave of developments around Bookshop.org, including its new partnership with Draft2Digital that makes it far easier for indie authors to sell e-books through the platform. He also looks at expanded audiobook options via Libro.fm’s new annual subscription model and a major new partnership with Spotify that connects audiobooks, physical books, and indie bookstores through seamless format switching.
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#ScribesAndMakers 8: How do you define a book? Do audio books and graphic novels fit your definition?
Thanks to the goofball way that ebook stores work, I presently define a book as something I can sell on an ebook store. Plus some things I can't. Which basically means a story that's 4K or longer can be a book regardless of its format. I'm not sure what the minimum length is for a graphic novel or children's picture book.
To be clear, the part of this that I resent is the part where a 4-5K story is a 'book' rather than a short story. Which it definitely is when I'm publishing it as a 'short' book. (I also resent the fact that pricing policies on #Amazon and #Draft2Digital mean I more or less have to price a short at $2.99 USD.)
Kind of off in the weeds here at this point. Getting more to a point, I'm generally not accepting of gatekeeping definitions. I will happily define book as broadly as possible. I would just like to be able to to call a short story a short story.
@shaknais I’ve run into an author who had one erotic work they couldn’t send from #Draft2Digital to #Bookshop but whose other works could be sent there. It would be nice to have any degree of transparency and consistency.
Between this and D2D declaring most non-fiction forbidden for their authors, I’m quickly becoming frustrated and disgruntled.
News Summary: Bookshop.org Partners with Draft2Digital; Libro.fm Launches Annual Subscription
The end of the week sees two big stories involving Bookshop.org. First up is some audiobook news, which is a significant development from Libro.fm. This is the audiobook platform that has partnered with Bookshop.org to allow people to purchase audiobooks wherever they're based and benefit local booksellers.
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'Good news!' Draft2Digital tells me when I log in, 'You can add your books to Bookshop.org now'.
I click the button to do so.
D2D: 😱🤮❌❌❌
BLOCKED BLOCKED BLOCKED
Not THOSE books! They're full of icky sex and mature themes!
Ew! Gross! We can't let Bookshop.org know we technically allow you to publish that! What will Mastercard think??
Won't anybody think of the shareholders??
Me: Yeah, that's what I thought you'd say, you stupid horse.
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