by Sarah Kuiken | Jan 24, 2023 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset
Between 2023 and 2028, the global audiobook market is expected to grow by nearly 25%. As digital continues to dominate, audiobooks occupy an increasing market share because they’re easy to take anywhere. Whether you want to get your work into audio without hiring a...
by Sarah Kuiken | Jan 17, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset, Knowledge Base
By now, we hope you’ve heard the news that Smashwords and Draft2Digital have come together under one roof to form the most powerful distribution option for wide indie authors, anywhere. At the end of 2022, we enabled D2D authors to opt into the Smashwords store and...
by Sarah Kuiken | Jan 9, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset, D2D Print
It’s that time again—the latest installment of our D2D Print Masterclass. In today’s article, we’re talking about Vendor of Record and copyright considerations when self-publishing. What is Vendor of Record (VoR)? Vendor of Record is a new concept for many...
by Lexi Greene | Oct 24, 2022 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset, D2D Print
Print books and eBooks are unique products we get to offer to readers, but many authors approach selling both with the same marketing methods. This makes sense; Indie and self-published authors have been advertising their eBooks for years while publishing print books...
by Sarah Kuiken | Aug 29, 2022 | Author How-To & Mindset, D2D Print, Knowledge Base
They say the only constant is change. No matter how thoroughly you’ve edited and perfected your book for print, the odds are good that at some point, you’ll want to make some edits. So how do you do it? How long should you wait to order print copies once you’ve...
by Sarah Kuiken | Aug 22, 2022 | Author How-To & Mindset, D2D Print, Knowledge Base
Welcome back! We’re here with the second post in our series on D2D Print. In this article, we’ll focus on a topic that’s near and dear to all our hearts: author copies. (If you’re not in D2D Print yet, sign up for the Print Beta here! We are opting in new...