I Gave Up on Publishing Direct

I Gave Up on Publishing Direct:

crypticfawn:

ibringthefireodin:

For those of you not in the indie publishing biz, there are two ways to get onto a site like Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo. You can publish directly with them, or you can go through a distributor like Smashwords or Direct to Digital.

I was determined with the release of Warriors to go direct…

Sounds like I’ll be going direct only with Amazon and Google as well when the time comes.

Thanks for sharing!

Well, it depends … if you want to be part of Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, you can only go with Amazon. Some writers have been having great success with it and I will probably put my next series in KU, at least for a little while. If I was going to go with two places, I would chose Amazon and Smashwords—just one doc to Smashwords will get you into B&N, Apple, Kobo, Scribd, Oyster, and a bunch of other tiny sites. 

My most profitable sites in order are: Amazon, B&N, Apple, Smashwords store, Oyster, Scribd, Kobo.

Direct to Digital makes prettier files, and gets you into B&N, Apple, Kobo, and now Scribd. But it doesn’t have it’s own store and I actualy make money in the Smashwords store.