Some bad news for me this morning: Draft2Digital have just confirmed to me that their Creative Commons policy will remain the same following the merger with Smashwords: banned.
Side note: it would have been nice if Smashwords had told me this. I asked them back in Feb 2022 when the merger was announced, and their response was "we haven't discussed this yet". (No reply to later follow-up email.) It would also be nice if those with decision-making power in the publishing industry had learned the difference between Creative Commons and PLR.
This means that I am now looking for other options for the two (soon to be three) fantasy novels and one humorous nonfiction compilation that are currently being vended through Smashwords and their distribution network.
Fortunately, I can do the formatting myself. Know of any CC-friendly online vendors? Reliable ecommerce plugins? I'd particularly like to make sure the books are still accessible to libraries.
@DMakarios the only other distributors I know of are Ingram Spark, StreetLib, and Publish Drive. I don't know what their stances are on Creative Commons, but I've heard lots of bad things about ebooks with Ingram Spark.
Not a distributor, but I believe DriveThruFiction will allow you to sell Creative Commons on their store.
Oh, forgot to mention: I find Payhip to be a good option for direct sales.
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