As is happening everywhere, apparently Draft2Digital too has decided that authors are the cash cow and have started charging fees 😕

I've pulled all my books from there till I find a replacement.

https://draft2digital.com/blog/understanding-d2ds-activation-and-maintenance-fees/

#writing #indieauthor #gouging

@f oh no. Thanks for the heads up

Siiiiiiiiiiiigh

@wendypalmer I know 😕I was hoping that D2D would be the way to move away from Amazon and now it appears that I have to try and move away from both ....

If selling from your own site was easier, I guess more of us would go that route, but there are so many issues with that route too. Ah well, onwards and upwards?

@f I understand their rationale to try to stop slop accounts but it feels like once again indie authors get punished for rogue AI use.

Clarkesworld was able to slow the AI deluge in their submissions queue without resorting to a monetary gateway and D2D is surely better resourced.

For now this doesn’t personally affect me, but that can change, and I feel for the indie authors it does affect regardless 😔

@wendypalmer Considering they were trying to get us to allow our work to be hoovered up for AI nonsense, I don't buy their line about this being a response to AI submissions. They have, in my opinion, just found another way to rip off writers while blaming it on AI submissions they had other options to filter out (as you already mentioned).

Considering how many other ways they've betrayed authors in the past year, it seems like a part of the pattern they've already established.

@f

@wendypalmer Have they said somewhere that this is to stop AI generated content? I must have missesd that because that wasn't in their blog post or in their email to D2D users.

Not sure AI content creators are affected by this anyway since according to them, they are making a lot of money 😛 So it only affects those of us who have to write one book at a time the old way...

@f you’re right, I made an assumption based off “automated and low-quality account creation” and their use of the word “slop” but they don’t mention AI itself - probably because, as @EveHasWords pointed out, they have nothing against its use per se

@EveHasWords @wendypalmer @f

I had considered going this route, not under those conditions.

@f

Did you find a way to delete your account?