For years I published my books on Smashwords and offered them to the world free of charge. It worked rather well and I was pleased with the situation. A few years ago, Smashwords was absorbed by Draft2Digital. This brought a lot of changes, most of which I did not like. However, I kept the new account as things kept getting more onerous. This week, they announced a new mandatory fee structure. Since my books are all free and don’t make any money, I would be required to pay money just to keep the account open.
I’m not willing to do that. It’s not about the money itself, but the anti-user attitude of the management. It’s the standard cut-throat corporate nonsense we have come to expect from the world.
So far as I know, this will not affect the books I have on Amazon, since that’s handled differently. As always, anyone who wants a copy of any books I have written can simply ask me and I’ll email a copy in ebook, PDF or MS Word format.
I got that email too. It’s a bummer. Looks like I’ll take my books off their too.
Hi Ed,
Could you add a link in the header to a list of your books and where they can be found? Might I suggest that, if you have time, you could add a brief summary of each one in the list. It would be helpful to readers.
Thanks~!
Done.