![]() Through the partnership, Overdrive library clients - the company works with about 28,000 libraries and schools worldwide - will be able to purchase about 200,000 ebooks by 88,000 Smashwords authors and lend them out to their patrons. ![]() Self-published ebook site Smashwords expanded to more libraries in deal with Overdrive, the country’s largest digital library distributor. Smashwords partners with Overdrive to bring more self-published books to libraries The company calls the new feature the most ambitious feature ever.Ģ014. The change is meant to help more Smashwords users begin earning revenue on their titles earlier. Smashwords says 67% of its top 200 best-selling titles began as preorders on the platform, yet less than a tenth of Smashwords’s more than 100,000 authors and indie publishers use preorders, largely because those final files weren’t available until shortly before their titles were ready to go on sale. Smashwords has offered preordering capabilities for over two years, but so far only for titles whose files are ready and finalized. Popular self-publishing platform Smashwords now allows authors to begin selling preorders of their titles up to one year before uploading the final assets-a finished manuscript and cover image-to its system. Smashwords allows authors to offer preorders without final ebook files They are competing against Audible, Findaway Voices, Draft2digital and many others.Ģ015. Kobo Writing Life is one of many self-publishing systems that accept audiobooks. Audiobook capabilities are currently available in English, and will become available for additional languages by the end of 2019. The roll-out is currently being beta tested and will be available to all accounts soon. Independent authors can now easily upload, promote and sell their audiobooks, adjust prices or choose what countries they want to sell in through the easy to use dashboard. Writing Life is the self-publishing arm of Kobo and when authors submit an ebook, it is sold across all of the various markets where Kobo sells digital content, which is most of the world. Kobo Writing Life now accepts Audiobook submissions Once they have your work, it is out of your control and they don’t play by the rules. Once you upload your books, it’s too late to take it back and KOBO cannot be trusted with author’s material. Beware giving them anything you wrote, because they might just play a sadistic game of “keep-away” with you too trying to get them to stop having fun with your stuff. My books showed up in the weirdest places even with other people claiming authorship of my work, and things like that. ![]() I tried to just get my books out of KOBO and close my account, but they won’t stop playing games with me and my books I uploaded. I tried all the other online book-sellers too and no other book-seller gave me any kind of the same problems. They royally screwed up my material and put it online that way and then I couldn’t get them to take it down and fix it. No other book-seller behaves the way they do. They targeted me for my work and played endless games with me trying to get them to fix what they did to my work. They’ll screw around with your material if they don’t like you and they’ll give you the total run a round ever getting anything fixed. Others may charge for conversions and pass along sales. Some options give you free conversion and take a cut of the sales. This file can then be used for other retailers, book reviews or to share with friends and family. If you pay (and with everyone you will pay one way or another) for a service like conversion then you should own the files. I believe strongly that authors and independent publishers should retain ownership of their files and materials. My favourite thing about Kobo Writing Life is that authors are able to download their ePUBfile after conversion. So how does Kobo Writing Life stack up against some alternatives like Smashwords or BookBaby? In one way or another they all seem to have pros and cons. There are now many options available to authors who want to self publish and I’ve been comparing them all recently. I believe they are demonstrating the same care and knowledge when dealing with small publishers or authors starting their indie publishing journey. ![]() I feel that Kobo get the publishing industry. I had high hopes about the launch of their self-publishing platform – Writing Life. I’ve always been impressed at the depth of knowledge Kobo had about their readers. They launched early into the Australian market (May 2010) and were my primary ebook store for this reason. Regular readers of this blog will be aware I’m a bit of a Kobo fan. A long and interesting article in Digireado: ![]()
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