Resources
BNET Resources
- sort by:
- Relevance
- Date
- Popularity
- Smashwords Takes eBooks Mobile
- Memo to book publishers: Beware of the rejected novelist! That may prove to be the moral of the story of Smashwords, a digital self-publishing platform started by entrepreneur Mark Coker after a carefully-researched novel he'd co-authored with his wife Lesleyann about the dark side of the L.A....
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Smashwords Broadens its Reach to Publishers
- Over its first year of operations, the eBook publishing platform and online book store Smashwords has catered mainly to authors, publishing some 1,200 titles from about 600 authors. As is fitting on its first-year anniversary, Smashwords announced today that it is broadening its services to add support for book publishers....
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Smashwords Adds Affiliate Marketing Program for eBooks
- In a move that infuriated many its marketing associates earlier this year, Amazon removed the Kindle from its marketing affiliate program. That means that affiliates who are driving eBook traffic to Amazon are not getting any financial reward for their efforts. But entrepreneurs love a void, so...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
Additional Resources
- Sony Signs eBook Deal With Smashwords & ASI
- Sony has negotiated new distribution partnerships with ebook publisher Smashwords and self-publishing leader Author Solutions Inc. ASI that will bring the work of thousands of self-published authors and independent publishers into The eBook Store from Sony. "We're excited to be able to help power the new Sony...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- E-Book Publisher Smashwords Partners with Barnes & Noble
- "We've signed an agreement with Barnes & Noble to distribute Smashwords e-Book titles, all of which are self-published or from small independent presses,†CEO Mark Coker told me this afternoon. “As you might imagine, I'm thrilled.  It marks the next stage of our...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- eBook Distributor Smashwords Buys Online Self-Publisher BookHabit
- Smashwords, which was one of the first eBook distributors to be have its self-publishing platform included in the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) digital bookstore, has acquired author community site Bookhabit. Terms weren’t disclosed, but a source told paidContent the deal was done for just under $1 million.Both companies were...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program
- TechCrunch submits: by Jason Kincaid Smashwords, an online Ebook store for independent authors and their publishers, is launching a new affiliate program that will allow external sites to generate revenue by linking to Ebooks that are being sold on the Smashwords store. by TechCrunch
- External links 2009-05-26
- Smashwords CEO Evaluates e-Book Market
- Regarding today's news that Amazon sold an estimated 500,000 Kindles last year, I asked Mark Coker, founder/CEO of Smashwords, the digital self-publishing company, for his reaction: "If the number is accurate, I wouldn't be surprised," he said. " Amazon has aggressively promoted the Kindle from day one,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Shortcovers-Smashwords eBook Partnership Has Global Implications
- Canadian eBook distributor Shortcovers is partnering with Silicon Valley's eBook publisher Smashwords to form a global content distribution partnership. Shortcovers takes an innovative approach to eBooks (being device neutral and storing books in the "cloud") that others in the industry may soon have to follow. by David Weir
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- The Google Book Search Case -- for Dummies*
- * That would include me. Imagine this â€" a free global virtual library containing almost every book published over the past century and beyond in many languages and formats â€"all reproduced in digital form, courtesy of Google. These e-books will be searchable,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Sony eBook Store Adds Tool For Self-Publishers; Authors Keep At Least 42 Percent Of Revenues
- Sony (NYSE: SNE) has lined up eBook distributors Author Solutions and Smashwords to offer a self-publishing tool for its online store. No specifics on the revenue sharing; Chris Smythe, director of the Sony eBook Store, would only say “It’s a better deal than what some other eBook stores” are...
- External links 2009-09-29
- Sony appeals to authors with self-publishing e-book scheme
- Sony Electronics has signed a distribution deal with Author Solutions and Smashwords to offer a self-publishing tool for its online e-book store. Sony is hinting that the revenue-sharing agreement it will offer authors is better than rivals’. Amazon reportedly offers authors just 30% of the revenue generated from its...
- Articles 2009-09-28
- Analyst: Half a Million Kindles Sold in '08
- For reasons that have never been entirely clear, Amazon.com has not been at all forthcoming about its Kindle e-book reader. One aspect no doubt has to do with the company's choice to employ a proprietary technology in an age when open-source products are proliferating. But Amazon's brass...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Will Recession Help E-Books Emerge?
- There's plenty of news on the eBook front these days:Â Â Â Â Â Â Amazon is introducing its new Kindle today, with an exclusive new Stephen King novel available only on this device. Google announced recently that it has scanned 1.5 million public domain books and formatted...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Quillp: "Where Books Find Friends"
- Another intriguing experiment about how to exploit the web's search, networking, and publishing technologies to help authors, readers and publishers all find each other is on the scene. Quillp Beta, a Berlin-based startup, aims to circumvent the "traditional limitations" of the publishing industry by providing "an integrated platform for readers...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Eucalyptus eBook Reader: A Glimpse of the Future?
- Over the past week, both out in New York and here in San Francisco, I've had dozens of conversations with people -- mainly in the publishing industry -- comparing the user experience of reading an eBook compared to the good, old-fashioned type we've all grown to love these past 554...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- E-Books Reach a "Tipping Point," Triggering Explosive Growth
- My email in-box is humming this week with people sharing anecdotes about the growth in popularity of e-books. An industry report is about to be published that reportedly finds a growth rate of 400 percent for e-books during Q-1 this year. So I decided to ask an...
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Knowledge Genie: A New Tool to Monetize Your Content
- A concern many of us have re: companies like The New York Times when they say they are going to start charging for online content soon is based in the sense that they remain stuck inside the box of a traditional business model; one that’s broken. Most...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Amazon v. Sony, et.al., in War of the eBook Giants
- The recent decision by Sony to drop its proprietary publishing platform in favor of the open ePub platform for digital books represents a turning point in the rapid development of the eBook publishing industry. It further isolates Amazon among the biggest players, with more moves in what has become a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- World's Second Largest Publisher: $9.99 eBooks Will Kill Hardcover Books
- Arnaud Nourry, the CEO of the world's second largest book publisher, Hachette Livre, says that the current pricing trends for eBooks may soon kill the hardcover book as we know it. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nourry says that he worries that the combination of the $9.99 price...
- News items 2009-08-31
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
