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PublishDrive charges a subscription and then takes nothing from sales, which inverts the usual aggregator deal and pays off the moment a book sells steadily. One upload reaches over 50 retailers and a library network most authors never get near. Plans are capped by title count, so a back catalogue costs more than a single book does.
Free covers one book and 3 distribution channels. Starter is $13.99 a month billed annually for 3 books and 50 channels with analytics and promotion tools. Standard is $20.99 for 6 books and in-store featuring, and a $41.99 tier sits above it, with public plans reaching 48 titles and custom plans beyond that. Every tier states 0 percent revenue share and carries a 30-day money back guarantee. The arithmetic against a percentage aggregator turns in PublishDrive's favour once annual royalties pass roughly the cost of the plan divided by the competitor's cut.
An author with a few titles selling consistently, where a subscription beats a percentage. Somebody publishing one book that may sell twenty copies should use the free tier or Draft2Digital.
Draft2Digital takes 10 percent and costs nothing up front, so it wins on a book that barely sells and loses on one that does. Work out your annual royalties before choosing: the crossover for the Starter plan is somewhere around $1,700 a year in sales.
Publishing
Self-publish to Kindle and keep 70 percent
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One upload, every ebook store
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Ebook distribution that states its cut up front
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