by Kris Austin | Sep 17, 2024 | Industry Insight
I know a lot of authors are eager to learn if D2D conducting an AI training survey meant that such a service was imminent. At this time, Draft2Digital will not offer AI rights licensing opportunities. Draft2Digital has always been dedicated to providing opportunities...
by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | Jun 21, 2023 | Industry Insight
In the Spring of 2023, the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) commissioned a research survey into self-publishing author income: the Indie Author Income Survey 2023. (You can see/listen to ALLi’s Orna Ross talk about it in Episode 128 of the D2D...
by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | Oct 10, 2022 | Industry Insight
As part of our ongoing series of D2D Self-Publishing Insider Insights, here’s a look at some of the data we’ve been tracking related to Q1 (Jan/Feb/Mar) and Q2 (Apr/May/Jun) sales from 2022. These sales are pulled from the aggregated sales from Draft2Digital’s retail...
by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | Jun 2, 2022 | Industry Insight
Self-Publishing Industry Insights – Q1 2022 This series is designed to provide a perspective on the self-publishing landscape. It’s derived from a combination of sales reports from the top-selling titles aggregated across all the platforms Draft2Digital has...
by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | Mar 3, 2022 | Industry Insight
Draft2Digital celebrates its 10th anniversary in March 2022. And now, as of March 1, 2022, with Smashwords and its 14-year history of distribution and sales, we have access to unprecedented data and analytics in the Publishing Industry. Because the fate of our company...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jan 4, 2022 | Industry Insight, Year in Review
Every year has its ups and downs, its challenges and its victories. And we all began 2021 with a minimum hope that, once we came to the end of it, we’d be able to say “At least it wasn’t 2020.” As it turns out, 2021 started a little rough, and had some valleys for us...
