Tell me About Draft2Digital, What Are Some of the Benefits of using D2D?

Draft2Digital, as a distribution aggregator, gives you the means to list your books on multiple storefronts and in multiple regions worldwide, all at your discretion. Our store partners include known industry powerhouses such as Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, subscription sites, libraries, and more.

We offer:

• Industry-leading customer support via email
• Monthly payments with the option to receive your payment via check, Direct Deposit, PayPal, or Payoneer
• Fast turnaround when it comes to file conversion and publication. 
  • You will typically see your listing online and available for purchase at most vendors within 24 - 48 hours of listing the book through our service.)
• When uploading a word document, we will generate an ePub file, PDF file, and a mobi file. Our vendors all require an ePub through our service, but we make both the PDF and the mobi available for your use. 
• Our service offers free digital ISBNs, which can be a cost barrier for most new authors trying to enter the market. 
  • The ISBNs are registered to Draft2Digital and can only be used on the sites we publish your listing for you, but it will be your Publisher name visible on the listings, not Draft2Digital. 
• We support Audiobooks!
  • We've partnered with an audiobook service called Findaway Voices to bring audiobook distribution to our authors.
  • We've partnered with Apple Books to offer free Digital Narration for eligible titles. 
• We support Print Books!
  • Our D2D Print program makes converting your ebook into print easy as pie.
• Our system allows you the ability to designate your DRM preferences and sample size preferences across all titles with one click, and your preferences will be included (or updated) on every site that offers those capabilities. 
• We've partnered with an online tax firm (Lilaham) making it possible for you to submit and update all data online without having to mail documents to ourselves or to the IRS. 
• Sales reports are both emailed out to you on a monthly basis, as well as uploaded to your dashboard for your personal download and review. 
• You can track daily sales via our daily sales charts to have a better idea of how your listings are doing in the market and the effectiveness of your marketing strategies.  

For marketing:

Marketing and promotion are ultimately up to you as the rights holder. However, Draft2Digital offers complementary measures far beyond what other services provide such as tools to help with book promotion and reader discoverability that you will find invaluable in the ever-changing ebook industry. 

• We offer New Release Notification sign-ups within your ebook conversion (which is an easy-mode approach to an author mailing list), as well as vendor site specific Also By pages,  Author Profiles, Book Tabs, and Universal Book Links. 
• Universal Book Links allow you to share one link to your book that a reader can use to find the book at their favorite store—whether that's amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, kobo.com, or itunes.apple.com. Anywhere your book is for sale, a reader can find it and buy it from one link.

It is our goal to continue to meet the author's needs by continuously releasing new author-requested features, new distribution options, and additional language support, and to continue to grow and accommodate the ever-changing industry of self-publishing.