OverDrive and WH Smith Updates OverDrive While not all of the promised 200,000+ Smashwords titles are showing in the public OverDrive catalogue, some 157,000 are, so if you are with Smashwords and opted in to OverDrive theres a good chance some or all of your titles will be available. OverDrive is the worlds biggest library supplier for digital content, not just in the US but across Europe and the UK, in Australia and New Zealand, and in places as improbable as China. Check the site at overdrive to see if your titles are showing. And if they are, copy the links to your websites, promo packages, etc, and make sure people know! Digital libraries are big business. OverDrive alone saw over one hundred million digital downloads in 2013. NB The Smashwords-OverDrive deal only covers OverDrive libraries, not OverDrives retail outlets. W H Smith WH Smith is the Kobo partner store that famously kicked out all indies last year following a scandal in the UK over some unsavoury titles appearing in the store. WH Smith is the second biggest b&m book store and the biggest news and stationers in the UK. Kobo devices and the Kobo ebook store are prominently displayed in the bigger WH Smith stores, so losing the Kobo-WH Smith outlet was a blow to indies selling in Britain. A year on and indies are back, but still filtering through. Last week we had just two titles showing. This week we have ten. Last week Tom Winton had none in. This week Tom has four. Yours may or may not be there, but keep watching if not. And if/when they are, be sure to add the WH Smith links to your website and promo packages. So far - and this may be pure coincidence based on a limited survey pool - I am not seeing any titles in WH Smith uploaded via Draft2Digital. Titles via Smashwords, Ebook Partnership and Kobo Writing Life are there. Currently Im seeing about 30,000 Smashwords titles back in WH Smith. No idea how many Smashwords titles are opted in to Kobo, but guessing a lot more than that, so probably lots more to filter through. Are D2D titles being allowed back in too? I cant imagine why not, but as yet I have no evidence that they are. Hopefully someone here can allay my fears and report their D2D titles are in WH Smith.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:25:34 +0000
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