Abram Kedge🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦Apr 15

I received an email from Draft2Digital today that says it is no longer free to use; there will be a $20 activation fee for new accounts.

There is also an annual maintenance fee of $12 if your annual earnings (after Draft2Digital's commission) is less than $100.

This seems like a significant change that will probably push many authors back to Amazon.

I wonder what the disengagement process with Draft2Digital would be? It is entangled with at least a couple of dozen external accounts. If you close your Draft2Digital account, do they just keep all the future proceeds from your books on Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and all the rest?

#Draft2Digital #writing #WritingCommunity

Show threadStuart J. WhitmoreApr 15
@AbramKedge How many people who have struggled to gain traction with wide books will give up on that and go all-in with Amazon now, even if they really want to go in the other direction? That applies to me - Amazon brings me readers, the other platforms don't, so my wide sales (direct or via D2D) have always been weak. I want to get away from Amazon - but this pushes me to go all-in there, because it's not efficient to maintain low-/zero-sales books on multiple other sites. "Thanks" D2D....
Show threadStuart J. Whitmore

@AbramKedge

My initial reaction to this was too strong. I think I mentally registered the annual fee as a monthly fee. I can manage $12/year to support distribution outside of Amazon.

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Apr 15 at 4:07pmWeb
Show threadAbram Kedge🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦Apr 15
@stuart_j_whitmore that's fair. I'm trying to cut out subscriptions that may be difficult to track down.
Show threadErotic Mythology 🌈Apr 15
@stuart_j_whitmore @AbramKedge No, it wasn't too strong. I probably won't make the $100 but more than $12 for sure. But my first year of publishing wide I made $0.50. This cuts the first rungs on the ladder for anyone considering to leave Amazon. It'll also do fuck all to actually combat AI slop. Content farms are way more likely to make $100 than human authors like me who can only really publish to Smashwords because all the other retailers on #Draft2Digital reject erotica.
Show threadAbram Kedge🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦Apr 15
@AimeeMaroux @stuart_j_whitmore Have to admit, it's painful to see everything accumulated under the payment threshold taken away for "admin", when the actual cost per author is near as damnit zero.