Small Government Book Fan Club discussion

If you're an author and you publish with Draft2Digital, you've probably already received the email about the change in payment policy. If you don't, you might consider it, because this is welcome news. This is the message in part:

"We are excited and proud to announce that there will no longer be a minimum payment threshold for PayPal or US Direct Deposit payments from Draft2Digital!

This means that if you are using either of these payment methods, you will receive any funds due to you on the very next payment period, each month.

NO MORE WAITING FOR ROYALTIES FROM A SLOW-SELLER!"

YAY! I just signed up Chasing Freedom for D2D. Wasn't getting enough Page Reads from Kindle to matter, so I decided to try going wide and see what happens. Are you selling through D2D? Any hints on marketing through them?

I switched from Smashwords to D2D some time ago because Smashwords doesn't direct deposit royalties (had to go with Paypal). I sold a few through Smashwords (not enough to matter), but I've sold none through D2D. Currently I'm using D2D for only my short-story collections. I like having my books widely marketed, and I'm not crazy about Kindle Unlimited, even though my novels are still enrolled.

All my books are wide, now. My last novel, False Flag, I distributed via DraftToDigital, and Smashwords (for the vendors D2D didn't deal with). They send me regular royalty reports, but it's too early for me to know if it's fundamentally better. I've heard it is (which is why I'm trying them), but can't remember the details/specifics why.

I've also heard it's better to distribute straight to Kobo, rather than go through a meatgrinder.

I'm trying to get a big promotion together for next month. Maybe I'll have a better idea after that.

I was thinking of going straight to Kobo, but I don't have my own ISBN and they pretty much require it.

D2D is much easier, and you get wider distribution. Smashwords is a meatgrinder, but D2D is fairly straightforward.

Wider distribution? Seems like there were some vendors Smashwords delivers to that D2D doesn't.

Marina wrote: "I was thinking of going straight to Kobo, but I don't have my own ISBN and they pretty much require it."

Do you know this first hand, Marina? I think I was able to publish a book to them without my own.

Henry wrote: "Wider distribution? Seems like there were some vendors Smashwords delivers to that D2D doesn't."

I was speaking of D2D vs. distributing straight to Kobo. Smashwords has a couple more vendors that might result in an additional sale or two, depending on how well your book sells, but D2D offers the option of paying by direct deposit with no minimum amount.

Henry wrote: "Marina wrote: "I was thinking of going straight to Kobo, but I don't have my own ISBN and they pretty much require it."

Do you know this first hand, Marina? I think I was able to publish a book to..."

OK, IIRC their wording was "strongly encourage" getting your own.