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Authors and Cover Artists, Meet BookCovers.com!

by Lexi Greene | June 25, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

Draft2Digital to Rebrand and Relaunch SelfPubBookCovers.com as BookCovers.com, making it the Premier Marketplace for Premade Book Covers Draft2Digital announced today that it will relaunch and rebrand SelfPubBookCovers.com (SPBC) as BookCovers.com, aiming to establish...

How Draft2Digital Authors Can Showcase Their Books to the Foreign Language Rights Market

by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | June 12, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

Indie authors have many ways of getting their books in the hands of the right readers of their English language books, but when it comes to finding success in the foreign language global market, their options usually involve: Investing in translators for their books...

The 2024 Summer/Winter Sale at Smashwords!

by Lexi Greene | June 11, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale is right around the corner again! Whether you’re enjoying the Northern Hemisphere heat or you’re bundling up in the Southern Hemisphere, our annual sale is a great time to promote your books! You can sign your books up for July's sale...

Say Hello to Fable!

by Jim Azevedo | April 9, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

Expanded Retail Distribution…With an Awesome Twist! Welcome to Fable! At Draft2Digital, it’s our mission to provide you with the very best tools to help you grow your publishing business. One of the best ways to help you grow your publishing business is to help you...

Grow Your Story From Scratch at the Storygarden Summit

by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | March 13, 2024 | Conference | 0 Comments

Our passion at Draft2Digital is helping authors by offering free tools and services to make it easy to get your book in the right format and distributed to our growing list of retail and library partners. But we recognize that you might also need help getting that...

Crafting an Irresistible Inciting Incident

by Polly Watt | March 6, 2024 | Guest Post | 0 Comments

A book may begin on page one, but the real story starts when a key moment sets the plot in motion. This week, Polly Watt from Fictionary shares how to craft an inciting incident that will hook your readers. What is an Inciting Incident? At its most basic, an inciting...

Introducing New Print Proof Shipping Options!

by Lexi Greene | March 1, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

We love it when we can fulfill an enhancement request for our authors. That’s why we’re delighted to announce that, effective immediately, you now have multiple shipping options when ordering a physical proof of your D2D Print paperback. You’ll see options that are...

Everything to know before you migrate your account from Smashwords to Draft2Digital

by Elyssa Dolinger | February 26, 2024 | Features & Walk-Thrus | 0 Comments

Can you feel the excitement in the air? It’s moving time! What you might not know is that we’ve been moving accounts behind the scenes already. We didn’t mean to keep it a secret, but we’ve had our heads down deep into the code it requires to make this process as...

Enroll Now for the Smashwords Store’s Read An Ebook Week Sale!

by Jim Azevedo | February 14, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

The 15th Annual Smashwords Read an Ebook Week Sale begins Sunday, March 3 and runs through Saturday, March 9. If you haven’t heard, the last few Smashwords store sales have been very successful. Record-breaking even! You can enroll your books now for the next one,...

Make the Most of Every Distribution Opportunity!

by Jim Azevedo | January 26, 2024 | Author How-To & Mindset | 0 Comments

Opportunity knocked. Did you answer? Here at D2D we pride ourselves on enhancing the discoverability of our authors and their books. It’s quite literally our reason for being. And the best way for you to help readers discover you and your books, is to put your books...

Migration Missive #7

by Kris Austin | Jul 25, 2024 | Migration

To keep up with these updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. Over the last two weeks, we made significant progress on migrations, migrating over 1,300 accounts per day on average. We are scaling this up ever higher and I expect us to reach 3,000...

The New BookCovers.com // EP185

by Lexi Greene | Jul 25, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast

Episode Summary Nick Thacker will provide a deep dive into what's new with BookCovers.com as the premier place for authors to work with artists to find their new cover art! ...

Smashwords Bestselling Indie Authors of the Week – July 20, 2024

by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | Jul 23, 2024 | Bestsellers

(The Top Titles on our Bestseller list include sales from combined data imports from all retail and library channels that are published through Draft2Digital and Smashwords. This list represents sales from July 14, 2024 through July 20, 2024) Congratulations to our...

The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale 2024! // EP184

by Lexi Greene | Jul 18, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast

Episode Summary In this episode, we'll talk about how authors position their books for success in Smashwords' 16th Annual Summer/Winter Sale, July's month-long celebration of indie authors and the readers who love them. [simplecast-embed...

Smashwords Bestselling Indie Authors of the Week – July 13, 2024

by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | Jul 16, 2024 | Uncategorized

(The Top Titles on our Bestseller list include sales from combined data imports from all retail and library channels that are published through Draft2Digital and Smashwords. This list represents sales from July 7, 2024 through July 13, 2024) Congratulations to our...

Migration Missive #6

by Kris Austin | Jul 11, 2024 | Migration

To keep up with these updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. Over the last two weeks, we've continued to make progress on automatic migrations. We are up to accounts that have not been active since 2014. If you would like to migrate before we...

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The New BookCovers.com // EP185

by Lexi Greene | July 25, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast | 0 Comments

Episode Summary Nick Thacker will provide a deep dive into what's new with BookCovers.com as the premier place for authors to work with artists to find their new cover art! ...

The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale 2024! // EP184

by Lexi Greene | July 18, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast | 0 Comments

Translation Rights Management to Expand Your Global Reach // EP183

by Lexi Greene | July 11, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast | 0 Comments

Episode Summary Navigating foreign language rights and finding great translators is tricky business, which is where DropCap comes in! This global rights marketplace for indie authors is revolutionizing the way agents and editors discover exceptional books....