Draft2DigitalReviews of draft2digital.com

They’ve started charging a fee if you don’t earn enough on top of royalties. As a very small author I make virtually nothing now on the sales I make through d2d (literally pennies on each book sale). Unfortunately if I stop using them I lose all my reviews and ratings. I feel like I’m in a vicious cycle where I could end up losing money (most of my sales are Amazon and I use d2d for everything except Amazon) but my sales won’t grow if I lose reviews. It’s a horrible position to be put in. If you are a new author or like me you write in a small niche that won’t ever make you lots of money, avoid this company. In terms of the service, it’s pretty poor as well. They put all your books out to different platforms which is great but it’s difficult to then access promotional tools that are available on those platforms.

New client books uploaded fine then they started selling them Boom someone starts hacking and stopping my books publishing trying to tell me what to do with my books and coming up with ridiculous excuses. Books were already approved and selling. Please stop.

My account was finally merged to D2D last month and it's taken me weeks to fix everything they broke. Support could be nicer and the FAQ needs to be more of an FAQ than a generic read. They don't have half the information available to be read that should be out there. Instead, you have to learn it by searching social media instead and hope someone mentions things like Apple's no competitor links policy. Smashwords had the same issue but at least their support staff were better. They also allow authors to recruit others in an affiliate pyramid scheme and spam Smashwords etc. with AI-generated low-quality books with terrible covers and break all the guidelines, but because the leader of their little pyramid makes them thousands, it's okay for them while the rest of us get punished. Overall, they're disgusting hypocrites who need to make things transparent or just ban third world country authors altogether instead of allowing them to register and apply before being banned because they can't verify their ID. The reviews tell the truth, but not the reason why they're being banned. D2D needs an overhaul to say the least, and hopefully a site that's user friendly than what it currently is.

Unbiased Testimonial: I worked one year with this company. It is nice at first. It pays royalties on time. There big asset is their paperback (Ingram sale)... Later, when i finish uploading 317 titles with this company... They said that my recent few publications are of poor quality... so they terminate my account... It is like i started from April and they closed my account on next year March.. (Fixed one year time) Pros: 1. They pay royalties on time. 2. There customer service is friendly. Cons: 1. They ask too many documents at first to start working with them. It is not normal industry practice. 2. They have Know your Customer which is i dont know but they ask authors to present all documents all to prove themselves. I never see any other company come up with idea of Know your customer after publishing many books with them. 3. If account is terminated you wont get any outstanding royalties. In my case i did not receive outstanding $1500 royalties as seen on my account plus after closing my account i dont know how many books were sold behind the scenes. 4. My books are still available to buy on Walmart even one year has been passed since they close my account. So, your books are not totally out of market. 5. This is website company of 11 people working not well established company. 6. Its income for authors dependent from Ingram spark sales. Now, we know Ingram offers free publishing so whats the point of paying 15% royalty share to this company when you can publish on Ingram for free... Recommendation for this company: 1. Give second chance to terminated authors like Amazon KDP ... Please dont make one time termination as forever as per there terms of service. Author can not make another account once terminated. 2. Do not ask too many documents to start publishing as no other company does plus it is biggest privacy threat....

About a year ago Draft 2 Digital published my book. I requested five author copies which I paid for. Three of those author copies had binding issues. Several pages in those books had loose pages. After an elaborate procedure to demonstrate that these books had loose pages they replaced the defective books. However, the ones they replaced also had the same issue. Furthermore, friends who bought my book complained of the same problem. I discovered they have an outside printing company that makes their books. Well that company is doing a lousy job. I would not recommend this company for your books.