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- 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
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- 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
- 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
- Smashwords Signs Distribution Agreement with Sony Electronics; Helps Power New Sony Publisher Portal
- Smashwords Authors and Publishers, Anywhere Around the World, Can Now Publish Directly into The eBook Store from Sony and other Major Ebook Retailers LOS GATOS, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Smashwords today announced an ebook distribution agreement with Sony Electronics, with dramatic implications for self-published authors...
- Research articles 2009-09-29
- Smashwords to Supply Ebooks to the Amazon Kindle Store
- Smashwords Authors and Publishers from around the World Gain Greater Distribution for their Ebooks LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Smashwords, a global publisher and distributor of independently published ebooks, today announced it will supply ebooks to the Amazon.com Kindle Store. Kindle is Amazon's wireless...
- Research articles 2009-11-23
- Weekend Grabbag: Updates from Startups Bideo, Smashwords, and Examiner.com
- Now that carbon has become the hottest commodity on the planet, under the cap and trade market administered by the European Union, there would seem to be no reason that user-generated news video and images couldn't be aggressively traded in an online auction setting as well. That...
- Blog posts 2010-01-31
- 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
- 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
- What's At Stake in Google Book Case: Access to History
- The issues in the convoluted Google Book case are so complex and involve so many parties -- publishers, libraries, states, foreign governments, academics, writers, readers, and the U.S. Justice Department -- that federal judge Denny Chin is essentially being asked to decide nothing less than our collective future access to...
- Blog posts 2010-02-22
- What's At Stake in Google Book Case: Access to History
- The issues in the convoluted Google Book case are so complex and involve so many parties — publishers, libraries, states, foreign governments, academics, writers, readers, and the U.S. Justice Department — that federal judge Denny Chin is essentially being asked to decide nothing less than our collective future access to...
- News items 2010-02-22
- 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
- Sony Opens the Door for More Independent Authors and Publishers With Publishing Portal
- The eBook Store from Sony Links Aspiring Authors to Author Solutions and Smashwords SAN DIEGO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing to deliver on its promise to provide customers access to the widest selection of content available, Sony today announced relationships with Author Solutions and Smashwords. ...
- Research articles 2009-09-29
- 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
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