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Indie publishing is a practical way to enter the market, with electronic readers now available at very reasonable prices. Smashwords.com offers distribution to Apple, Barnes and Noble, Sony, Diesel and other e bookstores:-

Smashwords Inc., based in Los Gatos, Calif., is an ebook self-publishing and distribution platform. The company began public operation in 2008, founded by Mark Coker.

Smashwords is a self-serve publishing service. Authors upload their manuscripts as Microsoft Word files to the Smashwords service, which converts the files into multiple ebook formats for reading on various ebook reading devices. Once published, the books are made available for sale online at a price set by the author. Smashwords does not use DRM.

Smashwords features:

• Possibly the largest indie ebook distributor

• 100,000+ titles published by 37,000+ authors and publishers
  

• 85% net back to the author or publisher

• Distribution to 31 countries

• Sales and metadata reporting

• Free ISBNs

• Free ebook conversion to nine formats

• Unlimited updates to your books and metadata

• Marketing and selling tools free

Getting Started:

1. Get your free account for your free account.  Your confirmation email will summarize your next steps.
   

2. Format your manuscript as a microsoft .doc word document or, you can send an email to list@smashwords.com to request: a list ("Mark's List") of Smashwords ebook formatters and cover designers. This costs around $40.
   

3. Click to publish then follow the straightforward steps to upload your book and cover image.

Free and fast e book distribution

Join over 37,000 authors and publishers from around the world who use Smashwords to publish and distribute over 100,000 original ebooks (as of February 2012).

At Smashwords there are no setup fees, no packages to buy and no cost to update or revise your book.  Smashwords also provide free ISBNs.

Smashwords is an authorized ebook distributor for most major online ebook retailers, including the Apple iPad iBookstore.

Smashwords is a certified Global Apple Aggregator distributing to iBookstores in 31 countries.

Smashwords distributes to Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo the Diesel eBook Store and EbookEros.

Smashwords books are also distributed into the native catalogs of top mobile e-reading apps such as Stanza on the iPhone and iPad (used by 4 million+ people) and Aldiko (over 2 million users) and Word-Player on Android devices. 

To publish at Smashwords, you have got to be the original author or the exclusive digital publisher, distributor or literary agent.

Smashwords does not publish public domain or Private Label Rights books, for which see Kindle.

Smashwords is the world's leading ebook distributor for indie authors.  Their free service helps you publish, distribute and sell your masterpiece.

Your book will be readable on any e-reading device, including the Amazon Kindle, the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, the Sony Reader, the Barnes & Noble nook, your personal computer, Android devices, and others. 

Smashwords authors gain access to free, do-it-yourself sales and marketing tools to help you promote your book. You receive 85 percent of the net sales proceeds from your titles. Affiliates receive between 60 - 70.5% of the list price of sales.

The Seven Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success

Smashwords for Publishers

If you're the exclusive publisher of two or more different authors, and you want to list and control your authors' titles on Smashwords, you may upgrade your account for free to Publisher status. This allows you to list and publish all your authors and their titles as multi-format, DRM-free ebooks.

Each publisher is provided a custom-branded online bookstore, and the ability to list an unlimited number of ebook titles from an unlimited number of authors. Publishers receive 85 percent or more of the net sales proceeds from their titles.

LINKS:

• How to publish on Smashwords

• Style Guide (how to format)

• Marketing Guide

• Apple iBookstore checklist

• How Smashwords distributes

• http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_ipad_ebooks

• http://blog.smashwords.com/2010/08/smashwords-and-diesel-partner-to-expand.html

• http://blog.smashwords.com/2011/10/apple-ibookstore-expands-smashwords.html

• "Smashwords gets self-published e-books to market", The San Francisco Chronicle 2011-05-12

• http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-05-09/business/e-books-mike-shatzkin-kindle

• http://www.smashwords.com/about 2011-12-29 

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