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I'm not sure why you'd need a third party to work with Google Play Books? If you have a PDF or eBook, you just upload the file to their backend just like Itchio. (Also, yikes! Draft2digital takes 10% of every sale on top of the other site fees?! That's INSANE. Is it really so convenient that it's worth that much??)

Beedok16 days ago

It covers a ton of different storefronts that get maybe one sale every other month. Uploading to all of them individually would probably take hours. With those minimal sales that 10% is maybe, like, $5 over the course of a year, sadly.

DarkChibiShadow15 days ago(+1)

I see... well, I won't get into my shtick about marketing, but if you ever wanna talk about that kind of thing, lmk.

Beedok15 days ago

I do want to clarify that I do promote my stuff. It's just that I seem to have built an audience that only buys from Itch or maybe Amazon. D2D is basically a rounding error for my sales, even with trying to include it in promotions.

DarkChibiShadow15 days ago(+1)

Ooh, I see. If I had to guess, it's because folks who are into indie trans stuff seem to be pretty attracted to the idea of Itchio: it (had) good tools for discovery work like yours and covered more than just novels. Before the paypro stuff, it also started getting a reputation as the "hip new place" to buy books, so I'm wondering if it's that. (Plus, I've found that folks usually just like a place that's easiest to buy from and Itchio up until recently made it pretty painless.)

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