Press Release: Draft2Digital to Acquire Smashwords, Creating Self-Publishing Juggernaut
Combined Company will Publish and Distribute 800,000+ Titles from 250,000 Authors and Publishers February 8, 2022—OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. and PACIFIC GROVE, Calif.—Draft2Digital, LLC and Smashwords, Inc., two pioneers in ebook self-publishing, today announced that…
Everything You Need to Know About Indie Author Marketing
We field a lot of questions here at Draft2Digital headquarters, but if we were to group them all by category, most would fall under the heading of indie author marketing. Or, put more simply, “How should I market my books as an indie author?” If writing a book can be…
Webinar: D2D’s Universal Book Links
When we first introduced our Universal Book Links (UBLs), they were a game changer. A single, evergreen link that lets you send readers to everywhere your books is sold online? Genius. But we’ve had time to tinker with the way these work, over the years. And we’ve…
5 Tools to Help You Reach Your Writing Goals
For many of us, annual goals follow a predictable pattern. We make clear resolutions, often including writing goals like “Finish that book!”, and are steadfast about keeping them … for the first few weeks. After that, life tends to get in the way. We’re too busy to…
2021: The Year of More Author Reach
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…
What’s the best word processor for writers?
Writing a book isn’t easy. It takes time, dedication, and consistency. Even the most prolific authors struggle now and then with writer’s block or another version of “life getting in the way.” Which is why, at one point or another, we’ve all had the same thought:…
