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Smashwords Books Reviewed

I started a blog to review books published at Smashwords.com. There is a real need to help Smashwords authors get the word out on what they offer and how to reach them. The site is: http://smashwordsreviewed.blogspot.com.

Any Smashwords author can contact me at neilcrab@hotmail.com and we’ll make arrangements. The first review is Mike Jastrzebski’s The Storm Killer, online right now.

Guest reviewers will appear from time to time, and all genres will be discussed. If I am unfamiliar with a book target market, I will ask in someone with real street cred in the field.

There is no […]

Neil Crabtree2011-10-08T17:12:11+02:00August 31st, 2010|Categories: Resources|Tags: Smashwords Tips and Articles|

SPR interviews Mark Coker of Smashwords

Smashwords is a service for helping small and self-publishers format ebooks in diverse formats (for example: kindle, epub, PDF, Palm) and distribute them through diverse retail channels (for example Amazon, Apple, BN, Kobo, and Smashwords itself). A few weeks ago I sent Smashwords founder Mark Coker a note asking if I could interview him for my site Wetmachine & SelfPublishing Review. He said yes; I sent him some questions about the current & future state of book publishing, and he answered. His replies appear below the fold (cross-posted on Wetmachine yesterday).

I found his answers interesting and direct, and I […]

John Sundman2011-10-08T18:00:59+02:00August 5th, 2010|Categories: Interviews, Lead Story|Tags: Smashwords Tips and Articles|

Self-Published Books Leading at Smashwords

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The most downloaded books today, Jan. 8, at Smashwords.com are by (self-published) Backword Books authors.

Women’s fiction

#1 – Homefront by Kristen J. Tsetsi

#2 – Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller (reviewed by me here)

Literary fiction

#1 – Homefront by Kristen J. Tsetsi

#4 – American Book of the Dead by Henry Baum

#6 – Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller

#8 – Carol’s Aquarium by Kristen J. Tsetsi

Much gratitude goes to the readers using the e-readers I can’t say I’ll ever buy, myself, but which I completely support and appreciate as a technological tool. I

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Kristen Tsetsi2011-10-08T19:42:53+02:00January 8th, 2010|Categories: Member Blog|Tags: Smashwords Tips and Articles|