Major American Ebook Distributor Draft2Digital Partners with Powerful European Bookseller

    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, February 10, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A powerful partnership between an American ebook distributor and a German bookselling conglomerate promises to bring many new books to a hungry European market. Starting today, any author who is part of Draft2Digital's catalog of 40,000+ books can opt into Tolino's digital stores.

Originally a German response to Amazon's Kindle, the cooperative of five German tech and media companies have made moves into other European countries as well. Through partnerships with Belgian, Italian, and Dutch booksellers, Tolino has created a significant footprint in central Europe. Recent reports suggest that Tolino has as much as 42% of the German ebook market, which is the third largest English-language ebook market in the world.

Tolino offers their own proprietary ebook readers that tie into an infrastructure allowing the partnered companies and booksellers to share development and maintenance costs for both the online stores and ereader technology.

Draft2Digital is pleased to add to the power of the Tolino market with their catalog, but even more excited to open a whole new, international market for their authors.

"We feel international markets are the next big opportunity for self-published authors," said Kris Austin, CEO of Draft2Digital. "We work with so many Canadians and Australians finding success in the American market that American authors distributing globally just makes sense."

Austin also points out that Draft2Digital supports their authors in that move with features like global territorial pricing and assistance navigating local tax law as well as strategic partnerships like the one with Tolino.

As always, Draft2Digital prides itself on its simplicity for the user. Checking a box is all an author needs to do in order to opt into the Tolino markets. If an author isn't already a Draft2Digital user, signup takes only a few minutes and will also give the author the ability to manage their work at several other powerful digital stores such as Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iBooks, and others.

Draft2Digital is the first American distributor to partner with Tolino in this way. The markets are live effective immediately along with all the other features that have made Draft2Digital a leader in the self-publishing industry. For more information, visit http://www.Draft2Digital.com.

Draft2Digital rose to become the second largest distributor of ebooks in the independent digital publishing industry in just three short years. The company gives self-published authors and small press publishers the tools to manage their work across a variety of the most powerful digital marketplaces. With innovative technology and industry-leading live customer support, D2D is constantly raising the bar of ebook distribution and assisting authors in redefining what it means to be a publisher in the 21st century. Find out more about Draft2Digital at http://www.draft2digital.com or call our live support at 866.336.5099.

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