Draft2Digital / Smashwords
It is a Scam
From the opening of Smashwords, I had my suspicions about the site.
My suspicions centred on how one site could make its owner a multi-millionaire so quickly in competition with Amazon?
It didn't take long before my suspicions were confirmed by reports from other writers.
The site may sell your work, but they keep the fees.
When I first used Draft2Digital it was a reputable sales platform, in contrast to Amazon I was selling eBooks there.
Then things changed, they began using a lending library system which means readers pay a library to take books out, the library pays the distributor, but unless you get masses of sales - the number is unknown - a writer sees nothing.
Two examples of this happened to me; on two occasions I was asked did I plan to write a sequel for a ghost story? I replied, what is the point in writing a sequel for a story, which as far as I could tell had not sold?
Also, I found a new issue with Barnes & Noble which was my main sales platform, not that it concerns me now as I am not writing
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