Draft2Digital or BooksOasis for Reaching More Readers

The Quick Answer

Draft2Digital and BooksOasis do different jobs, so most wide authors can use both. Draft2Digital is an aggregator: you upload once and it delivers your book to many retailers and library platforms, taking a share of each sale. BooksOasis is one bookstore where you list directly, pay a flat plan and keep the full ebook price. Use Draft2Digital for breadth. Add BooksOasis as a direct storefront where each sale pays more.

A Distributor vs a Store

Draft2Digital does not sell books to readers itself. It sends your ebook to stores such as Apple Books, Kobo and Barnes & Noble, to library services, and to many smaller retailers, then collects your earnings from all of them and pays you in one monthly payment. It is a convenient way to go wide without opening an account with every store.

BooksOasis is a storefront. Readers visit it, browse genre shelves and series pages, buy books and read ebooks in its reading app. You list your books there directly, set your own prices and promotions, and see every sale in an earnings ledger. It is a place to sell, not a pipeline to other places.

Seeing them this way removes most of the confusion. The real question is not which one to choose, but whether a direct store is worth adding to your distribution.

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Reach

Draft2Digital wins on reach, and it is not close. One upload can place your ebook in major international stores and in library systems that lend ebooks to patrons. For authors who want to be available wherever readers shop outside Amazon, that breadth is the main reason to use it.

BooksOasis is a single, newer store. It gives independent authors a curated place to be found, with genre shelves, new release lists and sale banners, and a catalog small enough that a book is not lost among millions. But its own traffic is modest compared with a network of large retailers, so it works best alongside other channels, not instead of them.

What You Keep Per Sale

Through Draft2Digital, your earnings start with whatever each retailer pays. Stores typically keep a share of the price, and Draft2Digital then takes about 10% of the retail price for its service. The result varies by store, but on a typical ebook you receive a little under 60% of the list price.

On BooksOasis, an ebook sale pays you the entire price, with no store cut and no distributor share. Print editions pay the price minus the printing cost and a handling fee of 30% of that printing cost, and readers pay shipping.

That difference is why many wide authors like having a direct channel. Every reader you send to a direct store earns you noticeably more than the same sale through a distributor.

Fees and Costs

Draft2Digital has never charged upfront to publish, but new accounts now pay a $20 activation fee, and accounts earning under $100 a year pay a $12 yearly fee. Beyond that, it earns its share only when you sell. If a book does not sell, it costs very little.

BooksOasis charges a plan whether or not you sell. The Starter plan lists 10 books for $29.99 a year or $9.99 a month, with larger plans for 100 and 500 books and a pay-as-you-go option for single books. If a plan lapses, books stay live and earnings are held until you renew. The plan suits authors who expect to send steady traffic to the store; it is a harder sell if you will never mention it to readers.

Print Options

Draft2Digital Print offers black-and-white paperbacks, distributed to Amazon and to other retailers through wholesale channels. It does not offer hardcovers or color interiors, so authors with picture books or premium editions often use another service for print.

BooksOasis sells ebook, paperback and hardcover editions on one book page, in five common trim sizes from 5 x 8 to 8.5 x 11 inches. Its dashboard checks print files before submission and shows the exact cover dimensions and spine width once your interior is uploaded. Print editions are sold only in the BooksOasis store, not distributed elsewhere.

Tools for Authors

Draft2Digital includes a free formatter that turns a manuscript into a styled ebook and print file, universal book links that send readers to their preferred store, automatically generated back matter such as "also by" pages, and occasional promotional opportunities with its retail partners.

BooksOasis focuses on the storefront itself. You can run unlimited author names and imprints from one account, schedule sale prices with start and end dates that show the original price crossed out, group books into series pages, and use the cover calculator to size your print cover. Buyers read in the store's app, which works offline and keeps their place, highlights and notes in sync.

Payments and Reporting

Draft2Digital gathers earnings from every store it supplies and pays once a month, around the 15th, by PayPal, direct deposit or check, each with its own minimum. Because stores report on different schedules, a sale can take a couple of months to reach you. Its dashboard combines sales from all channels, which saves logging into several retailer accounts.

BooksOasis shows each sale in its own earnings ledger as it happens, so you can see exactly which edition sold and when. Payouts go by bank transfer or PayPal once you add your details, which you can do any time before your first payout.

Pricing and Promotions

With Draft2Digital, you set one price and it flows to each store, and you can schedule price changes for promotions. Each retailer then displays the book in its own way, and some run their own sales events you can apply for.

On BooksOasis, you set a separate price for each format and can add a promotional price with start and end dates. During the sale, the regular price shows crossed out, and the book can appear in the store's sale banners, which gives a promotion visible placement at no extra cost.

Using Them Together

The two fit together cleanly because neither asks for exclusivity.

1. Publish on Amazon directly through KDP, where direct publishing usually pays best.
2. Use Draft2Digital for the wider retail network and library platforms, so readers can find you in the stores they already use.
3. List directly on BooksOasis, adding paperback and hardcover editions if you want print in the store too.
4. Point your own readers to the direct store. In your newsletter, website and back matter, a BooksOasis link earns the full ebook price.
5. Keep prices consistent across stores so no reader feels penalized for where they shop.

If you are still deciding how to handle Amazon, our comparison of KDP and Draft2Digital explains when to publish on Amazon directly and when to let a distributor handle it.

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