Why Smashwords Isn't Working

Five Rivers first signed up with Smashwords November, 2009 at the urging of Brian Rathbone. Despite having known about the service, I'd resisted jumping into the Smashwords pool because it all seemed somewhat ad hoc, geek-driven and populated by more fringe elements than credible. (I'm sure I'm going to experience a deluge of frogs because of that statement.)





However, after reading Doctorow's take on the fallacy of digital book encryption, and Rathbone's sales figures, I thought, sure, why ...