With the merger of D2D or Draft 2 Digital and Smashwords I knew that at some point I could have issues with this, as I had an account with D2D before, till they banned and closed my account due, to what they would say was that I doubled posted a story, and tried to submit a bestiality title when in fact it is a furry story, I thought what flagged it was the name so I tried to change it and I could not, so I republish it under a new name, and well that was when they went ape at me.
Now with the Merger with both companies, my Smashwords accounts have now been shut down because of this, even though what happened was before this merger and had nothing to do with them, and well a reliable source of income is now good.
I am planning to write a nonfiction book about what happened and my warnings about the two platforms or now one platform as others have expressed serious issues with this merger, and this is of great concern for other authors as well.
One of the drawbacks of being a self-publish author is that one of the easier ways of doing it is to go to a company that would take your story and then publish it for you, and at times the reason people do this, is the alternative would be to go to each store one by one and submit work there and this would need to be done over and over again.
However, these companies you go to are private companies, and as such if for some reason they find that they do not like you etc. Like any other private company, they can shut you down without fail.
This platform that I am on is my own, and as such all content I post etc. is whatever I want and wish to allow here, and I write here as a place for readers to come to see what my work is.
However, I wish to allow other writers to understand that any company they self-publish at can and does have a right to ban your books, accounts etc. without any reason at all.