Most self-published authors will have encountered Smashwords’ notorious ‘meatgrinder,’ and few of them survive unscathed.
They know what I’m talking about, but for those of you who haven’t come across this Gilliamesque monster, it’s the automated system Smashwords uses to convert uploaded files into various ebook formats.
And it doesn’t work.
Take a look at the book cover on the left. It’s the cover of Who Among Us… the third book of the TotenUniverse. It’s been on the Smashwords site since 2015 and we’ll come back to it in a moment.
The cover on the right is the new cover to Who Among Us… and part
of a newly edited version of the book. All the books in the TotenUniverse have been given a makeover, with new interior content. It’s all on Amazon now, available in Kindle format and over the weekend I started to upload the new versions to…
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The Opening Sentence 
Well that sucks
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All of technology sucks, except the good bits.
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Are we able to still have our books on Amazon as well as Draft2Digital? I might give this a go when my KDP Select terms run out if so.
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D2D will format your book to Kindle and put it on Amazon (an arrangement Smashwords didn’t have).
D2D are an aggregator who submit your work to the likes of Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple etc. So once your KDP expires D2D will distribute to all the other channels as well as Amazon.
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Do they apply DRM to the books?
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No. Single channels like Amazon Kindle will give you the choice, but aggregators only convert and distribute.
The EPUB format (Apple, Nook, Kobo etc) doesn’t support DRM anyway.
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