Smashwords

Wow, what a fabulous year it has been for Smashwords. The two blurry charts at left show the monthly number of visitors to Smashwords since...

Smashwords author V.J. Chambers published an interesting post at her blog yesterday in which she revealed her earnings from her self-publi...

The Independent Book Publisher's Association has invited me to be the guest on a free 90-minute conference call Monday at 1pm Eastern t...

As any writer will appreciate, writing can be a grueling, solitary and thankless endeavor. While most people fantasize about writing a book,...

My new column at Huffington Post suggests publishers should abolish DRM and trust their customers to do the right thing. Most ebook custome...

I've written previously here about how the risk of publishing will shift from publishers to authors. With publishers under increased p...

Imagine a story of a father and daughter separated for 25 years. A true story. With their permission, I'm sharing their story of Thanks...

Smashwords today announced a distribution agreement to supply ebooks to the Amazon Kindle Store. The news follows other important Smashword...

Smashwords today announced the acquisition of BookHabit , an ebook self-publishing service based in New Zealand. BookHabit launched around ...

At Smashwords, our mission is to make it free and easy for any author, anywhere in the world, to publish and distribute their ebook. So I...

NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, kicks off November 1 with thousands of writers who will attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in und...

Why do writer's write? This is the subject of a cool new essay writing contest over at Maria Schneider's Editor Unleashed writing c...