Most writers who self-publish use Amazon, D2D (Draft2Digital), or NOOKPress (BarnesandNoble).  Recently I’ve seen blogs about the changes D2D and Barnes&Noble are making in May. Rather than repeat what those bloggers have written, I’ll summarize the key points and, if you’re interested, you can check out D2D Here  and/or Barnes&Noble (NookPress)  Here.

So far I haven’t seen any changes for KDP.Amazon’.

As a quick summary, starting in May 2026 D2D will charge $20 to set up a new account. No fee for existing accounts. And for all accounts, unless you earn $100 a year in book sales, there will be a $12 (USD) fee to keep your books active.

Barnes and Noble, on May 14, 2026, is requiring print books have a retail price of $14.99 or above. Any titles priced below that will be removed from sale. B&N has been receiving a lot of AI books supposedly written by one author. Sometimes hundreds in a month. For that reason, they are limiting 100 titles in one account. A paperback and ebook of the same title will be counted as one. If you already have more than 100 titles with B&N, they may, at their discretion, remove them.

KDP, during the setup of a new title, asks if AI was used in writing the book. Will that stop AI books from being published on that site? I doubt it.

In regards to AI. I’m sure most of you who have published books, either with traditional publishers or self-published, are aware that thousands of books have been used to teach AI how to write. There are class action suits against several companies. The Anthropic Class Action Lawsuit closed the end of March and the final approval hearing is scheduled for May 14th with the possibility of $3,000 being paid to each author or author and publisher whose books qualified. As I wrote in an earlier blog, having an official US copyright was necessary for the author or author and publisher to receive any of the payment.

If I’ve missed any current changes, please let me know.