As I understand it, and believe me that you are probably more knowledgeable than I, but after you get the ISBN and all the T's dotted and I's crossed, only then can Smashwords get it to various distributors. Smashwords wants to get it to as many purchasers as possible. But it is the distributors who hold things up. Everything seems to take place in batches as to when they will accept batches of titles, then when they will put them on their sales pages, etc. So I think Smashwords is getting them out as quickly as possible, but it takes a while for the distributors to get them onto their virtual shelves.
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