Oh I am happy enough with Smashwords. My only real complaint is how slow they are. The reason I am staying with directly pushing to Kobo now that I have it set up is because it takes Smash MONTHS to fix listing mistakes. By going direct it only takes DAYS. Same with B&N.
Right now I have vol4 sitting in the review queue at Smash, but while I wait on that process my book is already selling at Amazon, Kobo, and B&N. In the past its around 4-6 weeks from when submit an ERROR FREE book to Smash and when it STARTS appearing in stores. Some stores take upwards of 8 weeks. Contrast that to the 24-48 hours for directly releasing.
Again they are great to work with just very slow.
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