Smashwords.com – what, why, and you

From the Smashwords FAQ

What is Smashwords

Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform, serving authors, publishers, readers and major ebook retailers. Smashwords is ideal for publishing novels, personal memoirs, poetry chapbooks, short and long-form fiction, and non-fiction. If you've written it, we want to help you share it and sell it!

What does Smashwords offer readers?

Smashwords offers booklovers an opportunity to discover thousands of independently published ebooks. We offer affordably priced ebooks for immediate sampling,purchase and download. Most Smashwords books are readable on any e-reading device. One purchase and you gain access to multiple formats.

So, why Smashwords?

We know they're not Amazon. They're not Barnes & Noble. But if you've never heard of them, you're missing out on a huge variety of books, especially in the indie variety.

Publishing on Smashwords.com lets us control the content, the distribution, and the price of our book without any headaches. They keep a modest percentage for every ebook we sell (after a transaction fee) and still allow us to earn higher royalties than published authors get for their books. (Of course, we also don't get an advance or any help with marketing, but that's the trade off of being an indie.)

So here's the reason behind this blog post:

In the past year, we've noticed that our fan-base enjoys our stories enough to come back for more, to give us some great feedback on what we post, but they seem to get shy when it comes to the indie way of doing things (that doesn't involve Amazon).

**We will be on Amason's Kindle store soon, but in the meantime, and for those of you who don't use a Kindle, we're on Smashwords.**

Downloading the EYES OF THE SEER, or any other book, on Smashwords gets you instant access to all the eBook formats, you don't have to pick and choose between a Kindle .mobi file and then need to worry about not being able to read it on your Nook if you ever change readers. Just log back in to Smashwords and you can download the epub file or the PDF, however you want to view it. One purchase, and you get everything. You also get free updates whenever (if ever) we upload a new version of the book. I hope you think that sounds as good as I do.

Moving on to the next hurdle. Billing information. Why should you trust Smashwords with your billing info? …Have you ever head of Smashwords being the target or subject of a security leak? That should be enough reason right there. They know what their doing to keep your information safe, and are a trusted, well trafficked site that takes their business seriously. Using Smashwords is secure, or we wouldn't be trusting them to be able to pay us our revenues.

And after you buy the book, finish reading it in record time because you could not set it down, log back in to Smashwords and leave us a review. It might get you a signed, print copy of the book when it becomes available.

Link EYES OF THE SEER on Smashwords: http://bit.ly/EotSswbook

Interested in seeing the book in print? Wondering how you can get your name mentioned in the acknowledgements (and other rewards)? Click here: http://kck.st/PublishEotS It's called Kickstarter. And we're using it to get published.