Draft2Digital Royalties & terms

Editorial note

Fees, share, ISBN and payment terms read against Draft2Digital’s own FAQ; the licence grant, the systems-improvement clause and the termination route read against the Terms of Service. The activation and maintenance fees are recent enough that older third-party guides still describe the service as entirely free to join. Telemetry was not assessed. Re-verified on 2026-09-04 against the full Terms of Service supplied by the site owner: the systems-improvement clause quoted below is intact and unchanged, and the document mentions AI, machine learning and training nowhere. That pass also picked up the post-term survival wording and the ownership of generated Work files, both now recorded. Draft2Digital runs several supplemental programmes on top of this agreement — Digital Narration (its own record), Payment Splitting, Shared Universe and an affiliate scheme. Their terms were read; only Digital Narration changes an author’s rights enough to warrant a record of its own, though Shared Universe is worth knowing about before joining a shared world, since it licenses characters, scenes and events as well as the text. On 2026-10-15 the Everand and Kobo Plus subscription rates were read on Draft2Digital's royalty-rates page and recorded as facts; the rest of the record was not re-verified that day. On 2026-10-26 the empty territories and returns fields were filled from the Terms of Service effective 14 April 2026 (s.6(f), s.12, s.15); the rest of the record was not re-verified.