Part of the AI writing assistant guide
Draft2Digital is a distributor: one upload, many stores and libraries. AIWriteBook is where the book gets written and formatted. They meet at one stage, formatting, and hand off at the next.
AIWriteBook covers the first three stages. Draft2Digital owns wide distribution. The colored stage is the one place they do the same job.
Outline, chapters, revisions, in your own voice.
Front cover for ebook stores, wrap cover for print.
Turn the manuscript into an EPUB and a print interior.
Get the book into stores, subscription services and libraries.
The formatter exports four files in one run. Each one has a clear destination.
Our step-by-step guide on how to publish on Draft2Digital walks through the upload, metadata, store selection and D2D Print setup with these exact files. If you plan to go direct to some stores instead, publishing on IngramSpark and KDP vs IngramSpark cover the print side.
Both tools turn a manuscript into book files. They start from different places.
Draft2Digital's converter takes a Word file, or RTF, ODT or TXT, and builds an ebook and a print edition from it, with automated end matter such as an also-by list and a teaser for your next book. You can download the converted files for free, even if you publish elsewhere. It also accepts a finished EPUB for ebooks.
AIWriteBook's book formatter works on the book you wrote or imported into the editor: five interior themes, 12 embedded fonts, nine trim sizes, front and back matter, and an exact proof, then a print PDF, an EPUB, a DOCX and a wrap cover. The formatter costs 200 credits once per book.
| What matters | Draft2Digital | AIWriteBook |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from | A Word, RTF, ODT or TXT file you upload | The book in your AIWriteBook editor, written or imported |
| Ebook | Converted ebook, or your own EPUB | EPUB checked with EPUBCheck |
| Print interior | D2D Print edition in six trim sizes, 5 x 8 to 8.5 x 11 | Print PDF in nine trim sizes, ready for KDP and IngramSpark |
| Print cover | Auto-generated wrap from your front cover, or your own on their template | Wrap cover exported with the interior |
| End matter | Automated also-by list, teaser and other end matter | Front and back matter builder |
| Editable file | Download of the converted files | DOCX export for editors |
You pay Draft2Digital when books sell. You pay AIWriteBook while you write.
Draft2Digital
A $20 one-time, non-refundable activation fee, then D2D keeps about 10% of the retail price on ebooks. Accounts earning under $100 a year pay $12 a year in maintenance. D2D Print pays you about 45% of list price minus the print cost. ISBNs are free but work only inside D2D.
AIWriteBook
Your outline and first chapter are free. Plans start at $12/mo billed yearly, and one-time packs start at $20 for 250 credits. Royalties go from the stores to you.
A D2D ISBN works only for books distributed through D2D. If you want one ISBN across every channel, our guide on how to get an ISBN covers buying your own.
Being precise here saves a lot of confusion.
Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Kobo Plus, the Smashwords Store, Bookshop.org, Tolino, Vivlio, Everand, and libraries through OverDrive, cloudLibrary, Hoopla, BorrowBox and Gardners. Amazon is by invitation, and D2D Print sells paperbacks through the Amazon and Ingram channels. Books2Read universal links come with it.
KDP, through the Publishing Assistant extension that fills and checks every KDP field while you press Publish. NanoReads, with one-step cross-publishing. Your own author page, with chapter previews, a reader email list and launch broadcasts. And audiobook and translated editions made in the same account. For every other store, you upload the EPUB, DOCX or print PDF yourself, or hand them to Draft2Digital.
Learn more about publishing on NanoReads and the author page.
Plan, write and edit your first chapter free.
