Favorite indie publishing sites?

[themadscribbler1970]

What's your favorite, or preferred indie publishing sites (i.e., smashwords or wattpad)? Or do you tend to publish to all of them?

 

[lovecraft68]

I publish to many, but Smashwords has always been my favorite because they allow all content-as long as its over 18-and are 100% indy so none of amazon's games of burying indy's in favor of mainstream publishers.

However, now that D2D owns them I think its a matter of time before it changes and not for the good.

Another good indy site is Carnal Pleasures who also allows all content

 

[gunhilltrain]

I publish to many, but Smashwords has always been my favorite because they allow all content-as long as its over 18-and are 100% indy so none of amazon's games of burying indy's in favor of mainstream publishers.

However, now that D2D owns them I think its a matter of time before it changes and not for the good.

Another good indy site is Carnal Pleasures who also allows all content

Carnal Pleasures must be the one from Boruma Publishing. It seems that they and smashwords are more geared to ebooks, as opposed to short stories. I doubt if I could create an anthology that made any sense. Also, they seem to emphasize actually publishing them versus merely posting them. That is what I got from my first glance at them. What is D2D?

 

[lovecraft68]

Carnal Pleasures must be the one from Boruma Publishing. It seems that they and smashwords are more geared to ebooks, as opposed to short stories. I doubt if I could create an anthology that made any sense. Also, they seem to emphasize actually publishing them versus merely posting them. That is what I got from my first glance at them. What is D2D?

Draft2Digital is another e-book publisher who somehow had the money to Buy SW. I used them a few years back, but they ended up losing their amazon account which they did get back, but they're so petrified of amazon that they are ridiculously paranoid. They bought SW to be able to use them as their own store and a new affiliate where they claim their authors can now publish stuff amazon won't allow as long as its clear it can only go to SW

My gut says at some point someone at D2D is going to worry, well what if something gets through to amazon and reeeeeeeee.
SW rocked because Mark Coker the owner didn't even submit to amazon, he wanted to be the amazon alternative.

Yes CP is through Boruma who I used to put me there and a ton of over seas sites I don't have time for. I've been with them close to 10 years and become good friends with the woman who runs it. She's come up from Florida twice to support me at local book events.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Carnal Pleasures must be the one from Boruma Publishing. It seems that they and smashwords are more geared to ebooks, as opposed to short stories. I doubt if I could create an anthology that made any sense. Also, they seem to emphasize actually publishing them versus merely posting them. That is what I got from my first glance at them. What is D2D?

Door to door, device to device - depends on media, I guess.

 

[themadscribbler1970]

Draft2Digital is another e-book publisher who somehow had the money to Buy SW. I used them a few years back, but they ended up losing their amazon account which they did get back, but they're so petrified of amazon that they are ridiculously paranoid. They bought SW to be able to use them as their own store and a new affiliate where they claim their authors can now publish stuff amazon won't allow as long as its clear it can only go to SW

My gut says at some point someone at D2D is going to worry, well what if something gets through to amazon and reeeeeeeee.
SW rocked because Mark Coker the owner didn't even submit to amazon, he wanted to be the amazon alternative.

Yes CP is through Boruma who I used to put me there and a ton of over seas sites I don't have time for. I've been with them close to 10 years and become good friends with the woman who runs it. She's come up from Florida twice to support me at local book events.

When you publish to an indie site, erotica or otherwise, what editing resource do you use? I'm assuming you probably have a relationship with a few diff editors now, but when you were beginning did you pay for an editing service, or what did you do?

 

[KeithD]

When you publish to an indie site, erotica or otherwise, what editing resource do you use? I'm assuming you probably have a relationship with a few diff editors now, but when you were beginning did you pay for an editing service, or what did you do?

Most of my works have been in the marketplace years before I post them to the Internet. I work with publishers. Editors have been supplied for the marketplace versions.