by Jim Azevedo | Jan 4, 2024 | Year in Review
Well, that was quick! It seems like it’s only been a couple weeks since we posted the “2022 Year in Review.” At the end of that post, we suggested that you buckle up, because 2023 was going to be a thrill ride. And it was. Collectively, we’re still trying to catch our...
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...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Dec 31, 2020 | Year in Review
As we come to the close of 2020—a year we can all agree will live in the collective memories of the entire world—it’s a comfort to realize we have more to celebrate than we may have thought. In the self-publishing world, there were some remarkable and incredible...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jan 1, 2020 | Year in Review
Usually, when a company does one of these “End of Year Reviews,” you get a list of some of the flashiest, shiniest new toys and features produced throughout the year. We have a list like that, too. But some of the biggest advances and benefits we’ve built for authors,...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jan 2, 2019 | Year in Review
For sure, 2018 had a few bumps in the road. Amazon shook up the industry first by a shift to favoring paid advertising over organic search results, then with policy changes that led to decreased revenue and even canceled accounts, with effectively no recourse for...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Dec 27, 2017 | Year in Review
As 2017 winds down, we wanted to take a minute to reflect—to take a breath, to remember what came, what went, and what it all meant, for us and for the indie author community. This was a pretty big year for indies, of course. And Draft2Digital was excited to be a part...