Hello fellow Nigerian writers,

In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Draft2Digital banned all Nigerian and perhaps some other African writers. They claimed that it was because they could not verify the documents we submitted for tax. This is discrimination!!! Many of us contacted them and pleaded with them but they said No. Go away. At that time, many of us flocked to Smashwords as they are the other book distribution giant and we continued publishing through them.

This morning unfortunately, we received an email from Smashwords saying that they have been acquired by Draft2Digital!!! Can you imagine? This means trouble. This means that, again, we will be banned and will have no way to publish on other platforms apart from Amazon. How can a whole continent be denied a livelihood in this manner?

They have planned a Live webinar to announce their acquisition and take questions.

Please my naija people, let's come together and bombard the live webinar with questions about why we were banned!! Let's do this to force them to restore our publishing access on Draft2Digital. If not, we will be cut off from global publishing by this new monopoly.

The live webinar will be taking place on facebook and youtube at 7 p.m. today evening. See links below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-TWtf8cy8

https://web.facebook.com/341297015982331/posts/4622486814529975/?_rdc=1&_rdr

Time is 7 p.m. Nigerian time.

My naija people, please contact Lalastica and Seun Osewa so that this post can hit frontpage this morning to save livelihood of writers in Nigeria.

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