The Best Self-Publishing Platform in 2024
Spoilers: it's not Amazon KDP OR IngramSpark. Here's my ranking of every major self-publishing platform.
2024 update: my opinion has not changed!
Your turn to rank them! Here's the template: https://tiermaker.com/categories/book...
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0:00 Going wide
0:37 Apple Books
2:30 Google Play
4:24 Kobo Writing Life
5:44 Barnes & Noble Press
8:00 Draft2Digital
10:18 Smashwords
12:02 Amazon KDP
17:48 IngramSpark
20:37 Wordpress (direct website sales)
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// REFERENCES
Major self-publishing platforms ranked, in alphabetical order:
Amazon KDP → https://kdp.amazon.com/
Apple Books → https://authors.apple.com/
Barnes & Noble Press → https://press.barnesandnoble.com/
Draft2Digital → https://draft2digital.com/
Google Play → https://play.google.com/books/publish/
IngramSpark → https://www.ingramspark.com/
Kobo Writing Life → https://www.kobo.com/p/writinglife
Smashwords → https://www.smashwords.com/
Wordpress → https://wordpress.org/
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