As most of you know, I have self-published all but two of my books. Publishing through Amazon is easy. Publishing through other outlets? Not so much – there’s a bunch of them! Fortunately, a company named Draft2Digital acts as a distributor to virtually everywhere else (Amazon, too, if you want a lower royalty rate).
While the vast majority of my sales come through the behemoth, knowing a lot of people don’t like that company, I decided a while back to “go wide” – publish to other e-book outlets. Rather than create about fourteen different accounts and upload my books to each, I decided to use D2D. They take a chunk, as does the retailer, but it was faster and I have a day job.
It was fine until last month when D2D announced they were instituting $20 new account activation fees and $12 account maintenance fees for accounts that don’t generate $100 in royalties per year. Since I already have an account, the former doesn’t apply. However, the latter does. I don’t come up to that $100 threshhold annually. As a matter of fact, I rarely make that $12 per year through D2D! Using them is no longer cost-effective.
Therefore, for the moment, two herb books (Cupboard & Baneful) and all the fiction books will only be available through the ‘Zon. As my eyes permit (it’s a lot of screen time), I’ll create accounts and upload to other sites. In the meantime, if you want one of the books and don’t want to read on Kindle, holler. I can send you a Paypal invoice and email an epub or pdf to you.
Thanks for understanding!