Panel: Choose Your Publishing Path: Self-, Hybrid or Traditional Publishing
Jim will be discussing how authors can publish and distribute with Draft2Digital (D2D).
Jim Azevedo is the marketing director at Draft2Digital (D2D). D2D is one of the world’s largest publishing & distribution platforms for indie authors and small publishers, serving over 300,000 authors who’ve collectively released over a million titles. Prior to D2D, Jim led marketing at Smashwords, the pioneering ebook self-publishing company, from 2011 until it was acquired by D2D in March 2022.
Jim spent the first 17 years of his career doing media and industry analyst relations for high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley. At the same time, he earned his “indie cred” drumming and touring with a metal band from the San Francisco Bay Area for 18 years.
Changing jobs in the middle of a career is always scary. Changing from one industry to another is terrifying. Yet it wasn’t a blind leap, because the first person Jim worked for in the tech industry was none other than Mark Coker, the person who would go on to found Smashwords 14 years after they first met. Together they built a reputable platform and helped to ignite the indie author movement.
