Writing and Publishing: Pronoun is Dead… Now What?

On November 9th it was announced that Pronoun was going out of business.

My world ended.

I have needed a few weeks to get over the fact that the greatest thing in my life as an independent author was going to go away in a few weeks (I have until January 15th, 2018 to be exact).

BENEFITS LOST
Pronoun was literally the best thing ever. There were some things I won’t be able to find anywhere else:
1) I could have pre-orders for my Amazon books
2) I could set the price of my Amazon books from $$ to free and free to $$ whenever I wanted
3) I could publish in Google Play
4) I had a wonderful Author Page where all the links to all distributors were listed.
5) Conversion technology was AMAZING and free.

REVIEWS
Now, not only will I loose that, but I will also loose the few reviews I had collected in iBooks and Barnes and Noble (both 5 stars, I might add). There’s still hope for Amazon reviews, since my ebooks are also connected to the Createspace version of the same title. So I guess the hardcopy will keep the reviews while the ebook changes from one place to the others.

OPTIONS
Since the horrible announcement, I have narrowed down my choices to the following 3:

1) Publish using Draft to Digital (D2D)
2) Publish using Publish Drive
3) Publish in each distributor separately

PROS AND CONS
It’s a hard choice and as I am trying to make up my mind, I have come up with the following pro’s and con’s to each of the options above.

1. Draft to Digital (D2D)
Pros:
– Great Service
– Conversion is free
– Publishes mostly everywhere
– All in one publishing spot

Cons:
– Doesn’t publish in Google Play
– Can’t set Amazon price to Free
– No author page

2. PublishDrive
Pros:
– Publishes everywhere, including Google Play
– All in one publishing spot

Cons:
– Conversion fee (unless I manage to successfully convert to ePub)
– Can’t set Amazon price to Free
– No Author Page

3. Publish on each distributors
Pros: 
– Get all royalties
– Can see all sales directly on each site
– Reviews will never go away

Cons:
– Can’t get into Google Play unless accepted
– No author page
– Every time I make a change I need to do it on all websites

So, there you have it.
Right now, I’m leaning more into D2D with the exception of Google Play, which I have applied for and haven’t heard back. Even so, I can still have Google Play exclusively with PublishDrive I guess.
I have also considered D2D except Amazon and do it directly there, although I don’t really care much about royalty % and it may be easier to update or whatever I need in D2D. I can’t get it Free anyway unless I ask them to compare prices and stuff. I just have one free book! Just let me have that one book, please!

Ok, that’s what I have to say.

Note: I found this website extremely helpful in case you want to take a look:
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/replacing-pronoun/
cheers!