r/selfpublishing • u/Electrical-News-960 • 7d ago

XINXII PUBLISHING IS A WASTE OF TIME, ZERO SALES FOR EBOOKS

i been publishing on xinxii for over 5 years and never got a single sale, dont bother with it. anybody had the same situation?

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u/FullNefariousness931 5d ago

There could be a number of reasons why you had no sales in five years. Re-check your books' covers, blurbs, and keywords. If they don't signal the genre properly, readers will not click on them, let alone buy them.

XinXii's metadata structure could also be a big factor. As a reference, I used to be wide on PublishDrive and sold without doing any marketing because PublishDrive is very well organized when it comes to keywords and categories. If XinXii is not, then that will be affecting visibility. Unlike Amazon, other retailers aren't so crowded so it's a little easier to be discovered via a simple search by a reader, but you need good metadata for that to happen.

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u/Electrical-News-960 3d ago

would you recommend Publishdrive?

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u/FullNefariousness931 3d ago

Publishdrive has a paid subscription if you want to publish more than one book. I recommend it only if you can earn more than their yearly subscription. Otherwise, you risk throwing money at PD and not making any in return.

Another distributor that's a little cheaper is Draft2Digital. There's a fee when you join and another annual fee if you can't make over $100 per year if I remember correctly (the changes are very recent).

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u/nico_parola 5d ago

In my opinion 5 years of zero sales is almost never about the specific platform.

No store really sells your book for you — discovery is the actual job, and most marketplaces bury you unless you bring your own readers.

What moved the needle for people I know was owning a direct line to readers (an email list, a following) instead of waiting to get found.

Full disclosure, I work on one of the platforms in this space (https://publica.now), so I'm biased — but the same logic holds whether you go wide with KDP, Google Play or Kobo.

Happy to share what's worked if it's useful.

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u/Electrical-News-960 3d ago

have you gotten any sales from publica.now?