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| - Welcome to Smashwords! Please click on the hyperlink below to complete your registration: Please save this email as confirmation of your membership. Welcome to Smashwords! This email contains important information that will help you get the most out of your Smashwords membership. Please save it for future reference. What is Smashwords? For book lovers, Smashwords is a great place to sample, discover and purchase over 280,000 affordably-priced ebooks, direct from independent authors and small publishers. When you purchase a book, 85% of the net proceeds go straight to the author/publisher, which means you're directly supporting the author who worked so hard to bring you their book. Smashwords books are DRM-free and most books are available in multiple formats, so you can enjoy your books on multiple devices without copy protection. It also means our authors aretrusting you to not illegally copy, share or re-distribute the book. The books you purchase are for your personal enjoyment only. Want to give your favorite ebooks as gifts? Check out our gifting feature! For authors, publishers and literary agents, Smashwords is the world's largest ebook publishing and distribution platform, serving over 85,000 self-published authors and small independent presses from every corner of the globe. Do you know a writer friend who dreams of publishing a book? Invite them to check out Smashwords! Smashwords makes it fast, free and easy for any writer, anywhere in the world, to publish and distribute an ebook. Smashwords books, in addition to being sold at Smashwords.com, are also distributed to major ebook retailers such as Apple iBooks (51 countries!), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Scribd, Oyster, the Diesel eBook Store, Aldiko and public libraries. Click here to learn how to publish and distribute an ebook with Smashwords. Check out our free resources that will teach you how to publishing like a professional. Read the Smashwords Style Guide to learn how to prepare your book for Smashwords. Don't miss our other great free ebook publishing resources, including The Smashwords Book Marketing Guide (how to market any book) and The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success (the best practices of the most successful ebook authors). Watch our tutorial videos at YouTube. Frequently Asked Questions Visit our FAQ for dozens of quick answers to virtually every question imaginable. Learn how to read Smashwords ebooks, or learn how to publish your own. New to ebooks? Don't miss our FAQ's exclusive glossary of ebook terms which will make your ebook adventure all the more simple and enjoyable: Connect on Facebook Connect with Smashwords authors, get coupon codes, meet fellow readers: How to Sample or Purchase Ebooks on Smashwords Once you discover an ebook you want to sample, you can read a portion of it online for free using one of our two online readers, or you can download a free sample in one of several formats. Because most Smashwords books are available in multiple formats, you can read them on virtually any device. Visit the FAQ to learn how to download your book to your favorite e-reading device or personal computer. When you're ready to purchase a book, click on the shopping cart icon on the upper right side of the page. You can then continue shopping to add more books to your cart, or you can complete the purchase by providing payment information. We accept most major credit cards and PayPal. All purchases are final, so please download a free sample before making your purchase. If you're redeeming a free coupon for a book, you'll enter the coupon on the very first page you see after you click the shopping cart. For free books, there's no need to enter your credit card information! How to Read Your Ebook After you complete a purchase, we'll email you a purchase confirmation. Return to your Smashwords Library, where you'll find links to your purchased book. Once a book is purchased, you can immediately download the book in any or all of the available formats, as often as you like. For more help on how to read our books, or download to your Kindle/Kindle Fire/iPad/iPhone/Sony Reader/Nook/etc, visithttps://www.smashwords.com/about/supportfaq#Reading Please remember, Smashwords ebooks are licensed for your personal enjoyment only. These books are not encumbered by copy protection, which means our authors are trusting you to respect their hard work and not share their books with others. Adult Filtering The Adult Filtering feature at Smashwords prevents ebooks labeled as "Adult" from appearing on the home page and in keyword searches unless you, the reader, choose to view such material. Like any bookstore, the books are available if you look for them, or if you disable the Adult Filter. You can toggle the Adult Filter ON/OFF on the Smashwords home page. You'll see the option in the upper right corner of the page, and below the first page's book listings. Authors and publishers at Smashwords are responsible for categorizing their books. In general, books not intended for readers under the age of 18 are marked adult. Therefore, the books blocked by the Adult Filtering feature may include erotica, graphic violence, adult language or other adult situations. How to Publish and Distribute with Smashwords: Smashwords is the world's largest ebook publishing and distribution platform for indie (self-published) authors and small independent publishers. We wrote the book on indie ebook publishing and distribution, and we're constantly working to open up new distribution opportunities for our authors. Come learn why over 85,000 authors and small publishers around the world publish and distribute over 280,000 original ebooks with Smashwords. It's fast, free and easy (especially if you follow our online instructions). To publish on Smashwords, you must be the original author, or the exclusive digital publisher. Smashwords does not accept public domain books, or books that appear elsewhere on the Internet under other authors' names (commonly known as Private Label Rights or Master Resale Rights, both of which we delete without warning if we discover them on Smashwords). We also don't want scammy "get rich quick on the Internet" books. We make ebook publishing easy, especially if you take advantage of our copious online resources. Visit our How to Publish at Smashwords Page at <a href="http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_on_smashwords.">http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_on_smashwords.</a> Here, you'll find convenient links to all of the site's most important resources. [ ] The Smashwords Style Guide - This is our ebook formatting bible, and it contains all the instructions you need to create a high-quality professional ebook. Do not attempt to publish a book at Smashwords until you have carefully studied and implemented the Smashwords Style Guide. Download it here, for free: To maximize the sales and distribution opportunities for your book, learn about the Smashwords Premium catalog athttp://www.smashwords.com/distribution . Once your book is accepted into the Premium Catalog, it will be distributed to major online retailers such as the Apple iBookstore (51 countries), Barnes & Noble (US and UK), Kobo (multiple countries) and soon, others to be announced. We also distribute to mobile ebook platforms, such as Aldiko for Android phones and tablets. View our Video Workshops Smashwords has created a series of free video workshops at YouTube. Learn to publish like a pro. Video Tutorials include:
* Introduction to Ebook Publishing (an introductory primer)
* Ebook Publishing Best Practices (learn the secrets of the bestsellers)
* Smashwords Survey Results (learn the best price and length for an ebook)
* 10 Trends Driving the Future of Authorship (indie authors are the future!)
* How to Reach More Readers at Apple iBooks (the #2 global seller of ebooks)
* How to Add Navigation to a Smashwords Ebook (it's easy, and will please readers) How to Market Your Smashwords Book: Keep your sales expectations low. It can take months or years to develop a sizable readership. Your first objective is to maximize distribution of your book to major retailers, and this is where Smashwords can help. Follow the Style Guide and learn how to get your book in our Premium Catalog, which earns you distribution to major retailers such as Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and others. Once your book is accepted to our Premium Catalog, it's your responsibility to get out there and aggressively market your book. To learn how Smashwords helps you distribute, market and merchandise your book, and to learn what you can do for yourself, read the free Smashwords Book Marketing Guide where you'll find 30 marketing tips you can start implementing today at no cost: [ ] The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success: In the previous paragraph, we cautioned you keep your expectations low. Yet some Smashwords authors sell thousands of copies through the Smashwords distribution network each week. What are their secrets? Learn the best practices of the most successful indie authors in this free ebook, written by Smashwords founder Mark Coker, titled The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/145431 Utilize our Sales and Marketing Tools: As your ebook publishing platform, we provide you multiple free tools to assist your marketing, sales, distribution and promotions. You'll find most of these tools in your Smashwords Dashboard. Check out Smashwords Coupons, Smashwords Series Manager, Smashwords Preordersand Smashwords Interviews. Become a Smashwords Affiliate: Earn commissions simply by hyperlinking to your favorite Smashwords books. Learn more by clicking on the "Account" link from any Smashwords page. You won't make a fortune, but it's a great way to help yourself as you help indie authors. Review our Author-Friendly Terms of Service Before you upload, we recommend you read the Smashwords Terms of Service. This is our author-friendly publishing contract, and it also contains instructions on how to maintain your Smashwords account in good standing. The Terms of Service is written to protect our authors and publishers. You always maintain control over your book. You own all the rights. There are no exclusivity requirements. Authors who violate the Terms of Service may face account termination. Find Quick Answers to Your Questions Do you have a question about Smashwords? Odds are, you'll find the answer in the Smashwords Support Center! View it here: How to Get the Most out of Your Smashwords Membership: 1. Please update your email's spam filter by placing smashwords.com on your "safe list." We have a strict no-spam policy. 2. Smashwords authors spend a tremendous amount of time writing their books for your enjoyment. Most Smashwords authors provide generous samples so you can try before you buy. If you like the sample, please show your appreciation to the author by purchasing their book, reviewing their book, and recommending it to your friends. 3. No DRM! - Smashwords books are not encumbered by DRM (digital rights management) schemes or copy protection that can interfere with your enjoyment of a book. This means you can read your Smashwords book on any device you choose or print the book on your home computer. It also means our authors and publishers are trusting you to honor their hard work by not illegally copying or sharing the book. Please remember that when you purchase a book, it is licensed for your personal enjoyment only, and cannot be sold to, or shared with, anyone else. If you want to give the book to others, please purchase an extra copy for each person so the author and publisher can receive their fair compensation. 4. How to read Smashwords books: Most of our books are available in multiple reading formats. Once you purchase a book, you'll find a link to it in your Smashwords Library. You can read the books online using our online readers, or you can download ebook files formatted for different ebook readers or for at-home printing. To learn how to download a book to your Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader or other e-reading device, click here: 5. Smashwords is in perpetual beta because we're always adding new features to serve you. We welcome your honest, critical feedback related to usability, interface flow, features and function. Your feedback helps us improve Smashwords for readers and authors alike. At the top of every page of the site, there's a message link where you can report your thoughts and experiences. If you have suggestions for how we can make a certain page, function or process more intuitive, report it. Ideas for cool features? Share them. This information goes directly to our support team. 6. Smashwords is an online service. There is no software to install on your computer, unless you want to download an e-reading app to read ebooks on your computer. Learn more here: 7. How to publish on Smashwords: Smashwords allows an author to upload a single Microsoft Word .doc file that we then automatically convert into multiple DRM-free ebook formats. Authors can also upload their own professionally-designed .epub files. Prior to publishing your own book, you should read The Smashwords Style Guide at provides tips to help you get the best conversion results. 8. Privacy: You're in complete control over how your information is presented on the site. We'll never sell or rent your contact information to third parties. Want to publish under a pen name? No problem. 9. Won't you take a moment to invite your friends to join the Smashwords community? Every new author and reader enriches the Smashwords community to the benefit of authors and readers alike. At the right hand top of the home page is a link where you can invite up to 10 people at a time. More Background on Smashwords -------------------------------- We're excited about the opportunity digital books present to the world's readers, authors and publishers. For centuries, books have remained the gold standard for information dissemination, knowledge sharing and story telling. Books have shaped the course of mankind. But traditional paper-based book publishing has its limitations - book printing and publishing is expensive, so book publishers are unable to publish all written works, and even if they could publish all written works, the vast majority of literate people in the world cannot afford them. Print books are simply too expensive when you consider that 86% of the world's population earns an annual income of less than $10,000 () versus the $30,000-$50,000 typical in the US, Asian and most European countries. Over one billion of the world's roughly 6.5 billion inhabitants subsist on less than $1 a day. Paper books are simply too expensive for most of the world. By moving books into the digital realm, we can dramatically change the economics of book publishing, while at the same time making great books available to people of all economic backgrounds from around the world. Smashwords returns up to 85% (and sometimes more) of net proceeds from the sale of each book back to the author or publisher. This means that an author who might otherwise earn a per copy royalty of 40 cents by publishing a $7.95 mass market paperback can make three times as much per copy by selling the ebook on Smashwords for $2.00 (a 75% lower cost). Smashwords economics creates a virtuous cycle: By pricing books low, Smashwords authors will expand the potential audience for their books while at the same time increasing their per-copy income. The average book at Smashwords is under $4.00. Of course, some Smashwords authors price their books at FREE, and we allow this. Thank you again for joining the Smashwords community. If you appreciate our free service, won't you please tell a friend? Best wishes, Mark Coker Founder and CEOSmashwords, Inc. <a href="http://www.smashwords.com">http://www.smashwords.com</a> Connect with Me: Twitter: Facebook: Blog: <a href="http://blog.smashwords.com">http://blog.smashwords.com</a> My columns at the Huffington Post: [ ]My Smashwords Author page: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mc[ ] Connect with Fellow Smashwords Authors, Publishers and Readers: Smashwords Facebook page: <a href="http://facebook.com/Smashwords">http://facebook.com/Smashwords</a> Frequently Asked Questions: Support: First, click to our FAQ. 99% of questions are answered there. If you don't find an answer, contact our support team by clicking the "Comments/questions..." link you'll find at the top of any Smashwords page. We're here to help! Attachments area Preview YouTube video Introduction to Ebook Publishing (Smashwords tutorial series, #1)
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