This is just a quick little informational post.
Some of my titles are available through Smashwords, and I plan to release pretty much everything through there eventually. What some people might not realize is that Smashwords is actually a gateway platform. When I upload to them, they, in turn upload to like a ton of other sites. And even for people who do realize this, they might not realize just how many freaking sites Smashwords uploads to.
I sure wasn't until I actually looked into it. It's a lot!
Now, I'll only be listing five sites/platforms for my titles. These include: Amazon, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, Smashwords, and iTunes. The reason why is because I don't want to get overloaded with links to over a dozen different platforms, and also because I think those are the ones that people use the most by far.
However, here are other places that I am and will be available! (NOTE: I don't even know what some of these are.)
- Baker & Taylor/Follett
- cloudLibrary
- Diesel
- Flipkart
- Gardners Extended Retail
- Inktera (formerly Page Foundry)
- Library Direct
- Odilo
- Overdrive
- Oyster
- Scribd
- Sony
- Tolino
Again, I don't even know what half of these are. There's one called txtr that I just did a bit of research on and learned that it went bankrupt in 2015! Smashwords needs to update their list. Now, I have not personally checked out all of these sites/platforms. I can't even find some of them. This is just the list that Smashwords gave me. For all I know, they could be lying. (They obviously were about txtr.)
But if you are familiar with one or more of these, and use them, then you should be able to buy my books through them!
If you're concerned about what platform gets me the most amount of money per sale, actually, Smashwords does! But like no one buys through Smashwords, which I don't blame them. Next on the list is definitely Amazon. I get 70% of every digital sale, 60% of every paperback sale (after the cost of creating the paperback). But this is just for people who are a bit more conscious of that kind of thing. Wherever you get my work, I just hope you enjoy it!