Jim Azevedo, Corporate Communications Manager at Draft2Digital (D2D), March 18, 2023

Jim Azevedo will present “Indie Publishing: What’s the Big Deal?” at the Tri-Valley Writers March 18, 2023 meeting. With “Read an Ebook Week” starting March 5th, now’s your chance to learn what’s so special about indie publishing. Jim will explain how the union of D2D and Smashwords created a self-publishing juggernaut overnight, legitimized the indie author movement, and ensured that even more writers will achieve their dreams of becoming published, globally distributed authors.

In the last 15 years, the book publishing industry witnessed not one, but two sea change events. The first was the democratization of the industry, circa 2008. The second was the merger of the two largest self-publishing platforms, Draft2Digital (D2D) and Smashwords, in March 2022.

Jim Azevedo is the Corporate Communications Manager at Draft2Digital (D2D), having joined the company as part of the Smashwords acquisition in 2022. As Marketing Director at Smashwords since 2011, Jim helped the company grow from representing 35,000 indie authors and publishers who released 80,000 titles, to more than 150,000 authors and publishers who published over 590,000 titles. Draft2Digital offers a broad suite of free and powerful automated and self-serve tools that authors and publishers can use to build and manage their publishing businesses. Visit Draft2Digital at https://draft2digital.com or follow on Twitter @Draft2Digital.