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  Smashwords to Start Accepting More eBook Formats in 2012

  1990 readersMark Coker, founder and CEO of the Smashwords self-pub service, announced earlier this week that Smashwords would soon offer authors a new submission option. Smashwords is well known for Meatgrinder, its automated conversion platform. Meatgrinder is the reason why Smashwords can sell ebooks in many formats, including everyhting from HTML, RTF, and DOC to Epub and

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  Smashwords Increases Conversion Capacity by 300%

  998 readersMark Coker, head of the indie eBook distributor Smashwords, has just announced that Smashwords has updated conversion servers (popularly known as Meatgrinder). Gone is the 30 hours it used to take to upload and convert an eBook; you should now be able ...

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  Led By PayPal, Smashwords Updates Erotica Rules

  687 readersDigital publishing site Smashwords has updated its policy, requiring certain restrictions to erotica content published on its site, because of pressure from PayPal. Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, explains the new terms in a letter posted on the site: “…we are modifying our Terms of Service to clarify our policies regarding erotic fiction that contains bestiality,

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  Smashwords: Over 5 Billion Self-Published Words

  745 readersLast week, Mark Coker, the CEO of Smashwords made an unexpected post to the company blog, an update that stunned its readers: Smashwords on your tab “Smashwords has now had a stunning five billion words uploaded to the site.” A GoodeReader website reporter caught a moment with Coker and discussed about this staggering figure with the Smashwords

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  Smashwords Founder Thinks 2011 Is Year For Indie Authors

  1562 readersSmashwords founder Mark Coker thinks 2011 is poised to be the year for indie eBook authors. With eBook adoption growing, Coker predicts that eBook sales will grow, agents will play a bigger role in the process, eBook prices will drop, and international...

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  Long books, short titles sell best on Smashwords

  251 readersStudying data can turn up surprising information, but it’s important to get the best results in what you do. Smashwords CEO Mark Coker recently released the results from data that was mined during an 11-month period from May 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013. This data studied trends of more than $12 million in sales for

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  PayPal cracks down on erotica e-book sales

  2675 readersRemember when Amazon started removing various kinds of erotica from its store? It’s happening again, this time with a number of independent e-publishing sites such as All Romance and Smashwords. Today, Nate Hoffelder called attention to an e-mail from Mark Coker of Smashwords to authors who publish through the platform. Coker reported that PayPal had

• Smashwords Hits 200,000 Titles

  140 readers Self-publishing platform Smashwords has now published 200,000 ebooks by indie authors, founder and CEO Mark Coker told Digital Book World. When we sat down with Coker for a wide-ranging interview in May 2012, the company had published about 121,000 titles. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based firm was founded in 2008 after Coker found it difficult to self-publish

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  Should Publishers “Design” For Digital?

  1331 readersWithout a standard format in place, designing eBooks can be difficult for publishers who are used to designing text for the printed page. Most publishers are looking to reformat digital versions of their print titles in the easiest way possible. But J...

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  Smashwords To Improve Discovery, Distribution, & Website This Year

  130 readersAfter having a record 2012, eBook publishing company Smashwords has plans to improve its publishing platform in 2013. This includes increasing distribution tools, improving metadata and discovery tools, and revamping the Smashwords website, among other things. Smashwords CEO Mark Coker explained the website redesign on the company blog: “2013 is the year we will give the