By following their guide and intuitive screen instruction, I
got my first book published in less than an hour, available almost immediately
in Smashwords website itself. Smashwords then helps indie authors distribute
their ebooks to major e-retailers such as Apple’s iBooks, Barnes & Noble,
Kobo and etc. except Amazon (at time of writing this post) because of the
royalty structure of Amazon. Anyways, for a full list of e-retailers doing
business with Smashwords, do visit their website.
The best feature of Smahwords would be its ability to do a
Pre-order launch of new books to Apple, Barnes & Noble and Kobo! Pre-orders
essentially accumulated sales during the preorder period so that your book may
have the chance to rise in the bestseller lists in those e-stores. Smashwords’
other features include:
- FREE ISBNs. Or, use your own.
- FREE ebook conversion to multiple formats from a Word .doc.
- FREE unlimited anytime-updates to books and metadata.
- FREE consolidated sales reporting simplifies year-end tax reporting.
- FREE centralized metadata management.
- FREE exclusive marketing and selling tools such as our Smashwords Coupon Manager, Smashwords Series Manager and Smashwords Interviews!
For a first time author like myself, I find Smashwords very
useful. I can concentrate in writing good books, while they take care of the
distribution.
I have an up-coming fiction of contemporary erotica genre and
this will be my first fiction piece to go into Smashwords.
