All my titles are now being published to Bookshop.org

Just a quick one this week folks! I thought I would let you know the exciting news that Draft 2 Digital have partnered with Bookshop.org which is fantastic news for indie authors like myself.

Bookshop.org launched in 2020 as an Amazon alternative and champion of independent book shops and indie authors. As an indie author I could have added my books to it back then but I never got around to it. However, I recently had an email from the team at Draft 2 Digital announcing their new partnership with Bookshop.

The good news is all I had to do was check a box and now all of my titles will be published and available on Bookshop.org in ebook and paperback. Draft 2 Digital is fast becoming a far more enticing place to be for indie authors and the link with Bookshop.org means our readers have even more places to find our books and avoid supporting Amazon if they wish to.

The whole process of uploading ebooks and formatting paperbacks on Draft 2 Digital is far preferable to the Amazon experience. I also much prefer their paperbacks to Amazon’s.

These days, perhaps because I largely only share the universal book links Draft 2 Digital generate for me, I get most of my sales through platforms other than Amazon. It makes me wonder if we even need Amazon anymore, which is something I never thought I would say.

I’m going to wait and see what happens with Bookshop.org. My books are not on there yet but it says ‘publishing’ on my Draft 2 Digital dashboard. It may be that in the future I ditch the evil ‘Zon for good.

That would feel good, to be honest! Amazon are famously terrible for indie authors, appalling at sorting out problems and communicating and we all know they are not an ethical company whatsoever.

I’ll see what happens but personally I would love to dump them.

What do you think?