Goodreads Authors/Readers discussion

Does anyone have experience with them?

Sorry, no. What are you trying to accomplish?

I'm looking for someone who has hands-on experience with them, possibly already submitted books and maybe got paid. The website is not exactly very conclusive.

What I mean is, what is your end goal? If you want to turn your file into an ebook, amazon is a reliable and relatively simple way to do it, and I know there are others-I just haven't tried them, yet.

What does it matter what the end goal is? I'm really only looking for people who have had experience with these guys.

I went through D2D to get my book on iTunes (didn't want to buy a Mac just to upload a file). Their signup was comparable to Kindle Direct Publishing, and they give you a choice of which channels you want them to service for you (B&N, Kobo, Amazon, iTunes, and one or two more). I uploaded my already-formatted ePub file and it was on iTunes within 3-4 days. No hassles, no problems.

Lance wrote: "I went through D2D to get my book on iTunes (didn't want to buy a Mac just to upload a file). Their signup was comparable to Kindle Direct Publishing, and they give you a choice of which channels y..."

Great news! Did they pay you already? And are you aware which data were pushed at iTunes of those you signed up with?

Anyone from outside the USA here who used it?

Steelwhisper wrote: "Great news! Did they pay you already? And are you aware which data were pushed at iTunes of those you signed up with?"

So far, I've had one sale in April, so they haven't gotten around to paying me. I don't know if they'll wait until I hot some kind of threshold.

I'm not sure I understand your second question, but if you mean "what metadata made it into iTunes?" then pretty much just the back-cover copy, language, and imprint. That may be all that iTunes accepts.

Thanks for the response, Lance! No, I meant what of your data. E.g. if you use a pen name, were they provided just with your pen name (and posed as publisher themselves) or did they furnish your pen name and your real name as publisher or your pen name as publisher and your real name for other purposes?

Steelwhisper wrote: "No, I meant what of your data. E.g. if you use a pen name, were they provided just with your pen name (and posed as publisher themselves) or did they furnish your pen name..."

I don't use a pen name, so I didn't pay any attention to any provisions made for that.

M...e! ;) But thanks for your info so far :) Maybe someone else comes around, who uses a pen name?