Smashwords Account Migration Updates
There’s been a lot going on over the last two years and we are now deep in the middle of migrating author and publisher accounts from Smashwords to Draft2Digital. This page is intended to keep you updated on our progress, our plans from here on out, challenges we are facing, and anything else to do with the migration. For general questions, please visit our Migration FAQ. Be sure to scroll down this page to see our most current updates.
If you can’t find the answer you are looking for in the FAQ or here, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Customer Support team.
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Total Migration Process
Accounts Migrated So Far
Books Migrated So Far
- Smashwords Author Accounts Invited 83.2%
- Smashwords Accounts Accepting Invitation 12.0%
- Smashwords Accounts Automatically Migrated 68.3%
Migration Missive #10
To keep up with these Migration Missive updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. It's been six weeks since the last update and we are now more than 80% complete. Unfortunately, as is often the case with big projects that last 20% can take a long while. However, trust that we have been hard at work to migrate the final 21,206 accounts. The largest piece of that 21,206 accounts is...
Migration Missive #9
To keep up with these Migration Missive updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. Again, we spent the last two weeks going through the automatic migrations. We migrated nearly 23,000 accounts and over 79,000 titles in that time. Automatic migrations have made it up to accounts last logged in prior to August of this year. These leaves about 5,000 accounts left to automatically...
Migration Missive #8
To keep up with these Migration Missive updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. Over the last two weeks, we continued major progress, migrating over 2,500 accounts per day on average, nearly twice the speed of the prior period. Overall, we are nearly 60% done with the migration. Automatic migrations have made it up to accounts last logged in back in 2021. Overall, we have just...
Migration Missive #7
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 accounts per day soon. We also removed exclusions from over 6,000 accounts. Overall, we are more than 30% done with the migration,...
Migration Missive #6
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 automatically migrate you, please login to your Smashwords Account page or Dashboard and complete the migration survey. If you don't see...
Migration Missive #5
To keep up with these updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. This week we have continued automatic migrations. We also released more tools at D2D to help authors and publishers merge various parts of their accounts. These tools are important for us to be able to support migration of users from Smashwords that have multiple accounts across both systems. If you would like to...
Migration Missive #4
To keep up with these updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. We have made our way through all pending active migrations and have started automatic migrations. If you would like to migrate before we automatically migrate you, please login to your Smashwords Account page or Dashboard and complete the migration survey. If you don't see the migration survey, that means we are...
Migration Missive #3
To keep up with these updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. Migrations continued over the last week. There was a short pause while we worked on an issue related to library pricing on migrated books. The issue caused some titles to have their library prices set to 99 cents. We have resolved this issue and we will be fixing all affected titles by the end of this week. We only have...
Migration Missive #2
To keep up with these updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. This week we started migrating accounts again after a roughly two week hiatus while we resolved a couple of issues. During this time, around 2,500 accounts completed the migration questionnaire that allows us to actively migrate them. We'll migrate these accounts before we move on to automated migrations. Automatic...
Migration Missive #1
Welcome to the first of many account migration updates. It's been a busy couple of years and we are actively moving author and publisher accounts from the Smashwords system to the Draft2Digital system. To keep up with these updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. Background A little background is needed to understand the context of most of the information below and in future...