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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Well, that's what you get when the authors can yank their titles from the publisher/retailer/"whatever Smashwords is best described as" at any time. 
There's no way to know what happened without asking the authors. But if one of the books in question is "Undead in the City," it looks like the author is self-publishing it without DRM on Amazon.... |
One can publish on both Smashwords and Amazon - the only caveats are you have to price your book at $2.99 or higher on Amazon to get the 70% royalty, and you can't price your book lower than the Amazon price elsewhere.
I got tired of waiting for Smashwords to get the Meatgrinder up for Amazon publishing, so I opted out of the Amazon channel and published my novel there myself, but it's still up on Smashwords.
EDIT to add: Although some authors were getting in trouble with Amazon because some Smashwords partners were discounting, but I believe this has been straightened out (or is in the process of being straightened out).
But that might explain why the books disappeared from Smashwords.