About this episode

This episode discusses the partnership between Draft2Digital and Bookshop, enabling indie authors to reach a wider audience through local bookstores.

Draft2Digital and Bookshop just opened a new path for indie authors to reach bookstore-first readers, with Bookshop serving around four million customers. We talk through what this partnership changes, how ebooks show up on Bookshop, how local bookstores benefit, what authors earn through the normal retail split, and how Bookshop affiliates can add extra upside. We also cover expectations, discoverability signals that reward recent sales, and why clean metadata plus DRM-free choices can help readers shop and read on the devices they prefer. (Feb. 4, 2026) Draft2Digital x Bookshop Press Release - https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/bookshop-org-and-draft2digital-partner-enabling-independent-bookstores-to-profit-from-self-published-ebooks/ Draft2Digital - https://DaleLinks.com/D2D (referral link) Subscribe to my email newsletter - https://DaleLinks.com/SignUp Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord Check out my main YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@dalelroberts My Books - https://DaleLinks.com/MyBooks Wanna tip me? Visit https://dalelroberts.gumroad.com/coffee . Where noted, some outbound links…

People in this episode

Host: Dale L. Roberts

Topics covered

• indie authors
• ebook distribution
• bookstore partnerships
• metadata
• retail split
• discoverability

Keywords

• Draft2Digital
• Bookshop
• indie authors
• ebook sales
• metadata
• retail split
• discoverability
• DRM-free

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Draft2Digital, Bookshop

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