The Best Self Publishing Book Platforms 2018

Cue big drums, red carpets, tuxedos and champagne. It's awards season again on the Jon Lymon blog.
And this year, as last year, it's a two horse race in terms of which platform for self-published books has performed the best.

RUNNER-UP: SMASHWORDS
A better performance than in 2017, but you can't help feeling that, as with all these self-publishing platforms, there's just going to be more and more and more books up for sale, but about the same number of eyes prepared to read them. But I like that anyone can upload pretty much anything, and there are sales promotions on Smashwords where you can sell your ebooks for free and hopefully attract new readers.

WINNER: AMAZON
For the 4th year in a row, Amazon has proved to be the best platform for selling books, although it's getting harder to get readers to leave reviews, despite the follow-up emails Amazon sends. My new book A Big Bluff And Some Green Stuff fared fairly well, and with the promise of a new look KDP platform and dashboard for 2019, it's hard to see anyone knocking Amazon off its perch.

Happy New Year.


PREVIOUS WINNERS:
2014 Smashwords
2015 Amazon
2016 Amazon
2017 Amazon

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