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Originally Posted by phossler
(Very) dumb question, since I'm not in 'The Business' ---
What is SmashWords?
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https://www.smashwords.com
Smashwords is an eBook retailer/distributor/aggregator which offers an outlet mainly for self-published authors.
From their About page...
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About Smashwords
Welcome to Smashwords! Smashwords is the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks. We make it fast, free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to publish and distribute ebooks to the major retailers.
FOR AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND LITERARY AGENTS, Smashwords offers the fastest and easiest option for distributing an ebook to the world's largest ebook retailers. We provide free tools for marketing, distribution, metadata management and sales reporting. At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works. Smashwords is ideal for publishing novels, short fiction, poetry, personal memoirs, monographs, non-fiction, research reports, essays, or other written forms that haven’t even been invented yet.
FOR RETAILERS, Smashwords offers a catalog of over 200,000 vetted, well-formatted ebooks from over 60,000 authors and publishers. We work with our retail partners to help them efficiently ingest and sell our titles.
FOR READERS, Smashwords provides an opportunity to discover new voices in all categories and genres of the written word. Once you register, the site offers useful tools for search, discovery and personal library-building. Most of our books are affordably priced, and many are free.
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