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After spending over four years in the self-publishing business I’ve seen my share of and used many companies for these are the 10 best self-publishing book companies in 2022.

Here is a list of 10 Best Self Publishing Companies (2022). I have given explanation of each particular the ones I have used myself. The purpose of this article is to revealed that you can publish books with other platforms and also get my personal premium tools without paying for it.

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1. 1.     Blur
2. 2.     Publishdrive
3. 3.     Lulu
4. 4.     Googleplay books
5. 5.     Apple books for authors
6. 6.     Kobo
7. 7.     Amazon KDP
8. 8.     Arnes and noble press
9. 9.     Ingramspark
10. 10.  Draft2digital

Blurb for example now distribute primarily ebooks and print books they're also known as an aggregate publisher now to publishing is because we're going to bring up numerous times throughout this video they're essentially a middleman to where they distribute your book to other avenues on your behalf and usually they collect a portion of the revenue that comes back from the sales now for blurb they distribute to their own bookstore they have apple bookstore google play bookstore kobo amazon and also an api integration you can put into your website pretty cool the royalty rate for ebooks is a hundred percent of net profits after conversion fees more on that in just a second here now print books the royalty rate is unclear now this could probably be on me I probably should do some better research i should probably reach out to him my apologies to you blurb uh if you are watching by all means let us know what your print book royalties are it was not easy to track down now the pros of blurb include stellar print quality with plenty of second to none they also have wide distribution they also have a hundred percent of net profits after the ebook bellyache about that here in just a second but it's a small bellyache and it's a new picky any rate the cons of blurb is the base costs for the print books is relatively high therefore you've got to drive your retail price up even higher or you're going to get a lower payout they also have totally different specifications for their print books versus other platforms because I know I could usually take an interior and a cover from kdp and put it over ingramspark and vice versa with no issues so these different dimensions also mesh up all together so there's also these conversion fees for ebooks and considering you get 100 of the net profits i think that's not really unrealistic or unreasonable number nine lulu now i've talked about lulu a time or two and I've even talked with the lulu team here at some point another big shout out to chelsea bennett they distribute ebooks and print books they are an aggregate publisher and they distribute over to lulu, lulu express which also has the shopify integration on your website which by the way they also launched lulu direct which integrates with woocommerce that is a plugin for wordpress meaning that you can fulfill print books to your website and if those aren't enough there's always a website api integration that definitely need to get a good website developer in order to get that going there's amazon distribution barnes and noble and they also have ingram book group distribution now when it comes to the royalty rates the e-books are 90 of net profits hey net profits mean since it's an aggregate publisher the earnings that come in obviously the people are going to be taking their cut on that given platform making the sale and then it's going to be coming through lulu who's going to take 10 of that and you'll get 90 PERCENT on the lulu store which is kind of cool print books though it's 80 of net profits minus print fees the print costs are kind of steep but I have to tell you that's what leads me to the print quality and they have unique options including spiral bound notebooks calendars photo books and so much more you can even do comics what and magazines yeah lulu's got you covered they've got wide distribution and here's the big plus they just celebrated their 20-year anniversary of being in the business so that means this company's not going anywhere the cons ah I don't like their quarterly paydays it just ah can we make that sooner it'd be kind of nice to see that you know monthly but I don't know they also have a little bit of a rocky pass though they've done I know there was a little bit of a debacle back in 2020 when they were platform and a new layout and it created some really big problems for the author community but they've really done their best to get that cleaned up and they're actually doing quite well these days they do have slower print fulfillment times now understanding that amazon has absolutely spoiled customers out there with a two-day delivery it's raised their expectations so getting a book to your doorstep in two weeks it's just absolutely unacceptable to most readers out there i hope that lulu can address that issue someday soon number eight publish drive publish drive handles it all ebooks paperback and audiobook distribution now they're aggregate different avenues now this means they have wider reach than you would see in any other platform because they're aggregate publishers too they also reach a different avenue that has really not reached much and it's china that's pretty impressive to me now the royalty rate is a hundred percent of net profits there's an asterisk next to that because they don't do revenue share there they used to but they gave it up a couple subscription-based aggregate publisher meaning that you've got to pay a monthly fee for the publications you host on number of books that they charge you per month now the pros include they have super wide distribution you get a hundred percent net profits and it's also a one-stop shop you get your ebooks your print books and your audiobooks all in one space and I'd really love to have just one single dashboard but sadly i probably wouldn't have this top 10 list now would I now the cons include the monthly subscription i mean you're going to have to gamble on yourself on this one you're going to have to invest just a little bit if you want to get that wider reach through publish drive and you got to pay for it through a monthly subscription so   I anticipate if you have a few sales per month it'll least mitigate those costs and put you into the black as opposed to functioning in the red some avenues are questionable for gaining any sales or exposure I mean some of them I'm like I don't even know what that is or where that's at I'm sure maybe someone's familiar in that neck of the woods or some other region but not here and I really never seen any sales come for them and speaking of those little avenues sometimes they're the slower ones to de-list your title if you want to end up going exclusive to one platform those ones are always the ones that take their time and it just seems to take forever until finally a couple weeks later you'll have it finally delisted number seven draft digital and smashwords now Ii've got to mention both draft2digital more recently acquired smashwords so they're now all one company they have ebook and paperback dozens of different platforms between the two of them and it's like it might be like 17 or something like that it's it's a lot their royalty rate works like this ebooks it's 90 of net profits now it varies per avenue again on how much you're going to end up seeing they actually have some numbers that they crunched on there and they said sometimes it will be an average of say of the retail price again it varies usually it takes out to that much but it just it'll depend paperbacks though it's minus print costs now distribution you get about 17 avenues including library distribution free ebooks and you get print book distribution to amazon and through the ingram content group what about the pros and cons of draft to digital and smashwords well they've got drafted digital has an amazing free automated interior formatting tool and they also have direct integration with find away voices which does audiobook distribution now the cons of drafted digital and smashwords is print is still in beta they are still ironing out the kinks they're trying to make everything right so hang in there if you don't have access to it i know you can reach out to them and ask for it but don't expect to be marveled by everything because they're still working on stuff and the recent merge could possibly create some issues now this is completely speculative because i don't know the inner workings of things like that and that's really it I can't complain about anything else on these two companies they handle ebook distribution and to a certain extent audio books this is an amazon alternative their distribution goes to all the google avenues including the 70 plus regions it's a ridiculous count the royalty rate is 70 regardless of the price now the pros of google play books is well it's google it's the world's most used search engine so putting your book on there is just a given you're going to get a few readers with no exceptions they used to have kind of same system that amazon kdp uses not anymore they said yeah it's 70 screw it and also they have something called book sample indexing so if you have a sample of say the first 10 of your book they actually take the text in there and use it in search engines meaning that your book is becoming more discoverable through the search engine pretty cool right now the cons i gotta admit to you the user interface is very clunky now also you have to apply to get an account they open it and close it as often as i care to not even mention at this point it's just it gets ridiculous after a while so try to apply for an account if you can audiobook distribution is totally inaccessible you want to get there you've got to use places like find a way voices to reach google play books for the audiobook distribution by the way you're going to see a repeat pattern over the next few companies i mention here number five apple books for authors now again this is e-book distribution and to a certain extent audio books now they are another one of the amazon alternatives their distribution reaches 51 apple stores the royalty rate is 70 regardless of your pricing the pros include now it's available to non-apple users for years there you had to have a mac or you had to do some type of a cloud or whatever it was just too much work now everyone can do it now they have wide distribution it's really great royalty rate as well when it comes to the cons ha there's too many dashboards and it gets so confusing because you have to have an itunes connect account and then you gotta go over and open this up and you gotta pat your head and rub your stomach and after a while you just kind of lost not to mention it's kind of it's like google play books also there's no direct audio book distribution which i can go use find a way voices sure but man it would be nice to go right over to apple with my audiobooks.

Barnes Noble press handle ebooks and print books and to a certain extent audiobook distribution now they're also an amazon alternative they distribute their ebooks to 12 different regions and only to us yeah no 12 regions the royalty rate works like this ebooks is print books are 55 minus the print fees now the pros is oh my goodness excellent print quality I know I've said this quite a bit but there's a little bit of an asterisk here okay and I'm going to get to in just a little bit here but we're going to stick with the pros it's got an easy user interface and it's also great for us authors but there's also limitations here let's talk about the cons and that's the limited reach also the print book formatting is a pain in the butt like they have really strict standards and if you don't get it dialed in you're out of luck also audiobook distribution is inaccessible same as before views find a way voices for okay number three kobo writing life they handle ebook and audiobook distribution without an asterisk oh that's nice right now they are an amazon alternative like those past few i was just discussing this distribution goes with ebooks to 14 regions with 22 platforms audiobooks goes to six major regions plus four distribution sites the royalty rate works just like this ebooks is 70 this is where it kind of gets crazy we can pop up the algorithm in front of my face on this one 35 royalties for audiobooks priced 2.99 or lower and 45 royalties for audiobooks priced above 2.99 so the lesson is price your audiobook above 299. so the pros when it comes to this platform kobo writing life has access to overdrive with no revenue share now there's other avenues like drafted digital and smashwords that you can get overdrive but through kobo you don't have to worry about splitting that cut through overdrive they also have in my opinion the best user interface of all the options i mentioned in this video and they also have kobo plus subscription it's like kindle unlimited but for kobo and the nice thing is you as an author you don't really have to opt in to an exclusivity program you can just opt in and that's that and still publish elsewhere now the cons when it comes to kobo writing life I've yet to try direct audiobook distribution I know that's on me that's not them i just need to take the time for myself so I'm sorry I uh I'll see at the christmas party and also they've got that weird audiobook royalty structure but I guess it's pretty clear just price your books above 299 if you want the best royalty rate number two ingramspark they handle ebook and print book distribution and they are the widest reach of all the platforms in fact some platforms even rely on their parent company of ingram content group to distribute their books these guys are aggregate publishers now they have a distribution to six regions and 36 different distributors they also boast over 40 000 retailers in libraries what are they we don't know we'll get to that in just a second here now let's discuss the royalty rate ebooks you get 40 of versus the other platforms where it's but these are 40 of net profits that doesn't make sense to me I've never used ingramspark for ebook distribution for that reason alone because I can go to some of the avenues straight and just get my full earnings from them as opposed to just a little bit of it now the print books though this is where i go to them for they have a variable percentage you'll get paid 45 to 65 percent minus print fees the pros of distribution you can kind of go for amazon uses the parent company ingram content group for expanded distribution so this tells you that they really like the distribution there you also get brick and mortar distribution or at least the option to get there and also it has great print quality now the cons include this you got to bring your own ISBN though it's free in the us you still have to account for the other thing it's pay per upload you've got to pay 49 for uploads and 25 dollars for updates now you could mitigate costs with coupon codes you can kind of search around for some of them sometime but that can't be used in conjunction with that free ISBN the us you can have one or the other my other big issue with them includes the lack of transparency and customer support I've had numerous viewers who have reached out complaining about how customer support sometimes doesn't even get back to them or they give them an answer that has nothing to do with what they sent in a support ticket for and also lack of transparency I don't like the fact that they tell us that it's going to 40 000 different avenues but we don't know what those ones are why can't we see a list and i shouldn't that be a concern of ours as well considering that that's where our books are going to be going to number one amazon KDP I think you knew that this was the direction that we were going to they have ebook and print book distribution and hard cover options are an open beta right now so that means they're still working on some things and I'm sure distribution will start to increase for those in due time speaking of distribution e-books reach 13 amazon regions and the print books well paperback reaches nine regions plus expanded distribution hardcover reaches distribution yet now the royalty rate if you price your book between 2.99 so they will penalize you if you do not price your ebook where they like it to be now with print books it's 60 minus print fees and it's 40 minus print fees for expanded distribution.

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