Going Wide Unboxed by Patty Jansen

Author:Patty Jansen [Jansen, Patty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Authorship, Language, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Reference, Self-Publishing, Writing Skills
Google: Gxs4DwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07645HRR6
Publisher: Patty Jansen
Published: 2017-10-07T23:00:00+00:00

Smashwords

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IN ADDITION TO being an aggregator, Smashwords has their own store. They distribute to all major retailers—except Amazon and Google Play—and a lot of smaller places, including library suppliers. The website looks very 1990’s, and a lot of smut with insanely bad covers gets sold there. But some people in some countries swear by Smashwords. The nifty thing about Smashwords is their coupons. This allows you to make a book free—and email the codes to the members of your ARC team.

They pay monthly (they used to pay quarterly until recently), use PayPal or cheque but have a strong preference for PayPal (and have no payout limit for PayPal), and take 10% of your earnings from other sites and 30% of your earnings from their retail site.

They do require an EIN.

Smashwords does not issue monthly reports, but you can generate your own at any time over any period.

Their accepted format has taken a bit of a beating over the years, but they now also accept EPUB files as well as specifically formatted DOC files which need to go through a piece of software terribly named “meatgrinder”. Seriously, whoever came up with that?

So! No need for DOC files any more.

But.

There is a big but.

The appeal of Smashwords for the reader is that they offer files in all these weird and wonderful quaint and ancient formats. Palm readers, PDF files, there is a list of file formats they produce . . . from your DOC file. Your EPUB file will stay an EPUB file and that’s it. No other formats. So I highly recommend that you do not upload an EPUB file but a DOC file.

I have found the Smashwords DOC file very handy for print formatting. It already has headers and body text properly formatted, and I only need to drop the file into my print formatting program InDesign and it automatically copies the formatting across into the correct styles.

On the Smashwords store, you can easily toggle price. The rankings don’t mix free and paid books.

If you write under pen names that you want to keep separated, you’ll need two accounts with two different PayPal addresses.

In short:

Register here: Smashwords

Open for: everyone

File format: DOC, with specifications

Payment: paypal, cheque

Tax: US tax ID

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