Mark Coker's literary ambitions were badly shaken three years ago when he couldn't find a publisher for the novel he had written with his wife. Now Coker is trying to shake up the industry that ...

Memo to book publishers: Beware of the rejected novelist! That may prove to be the moral of the story of Smashwords, a digital self-publishing platform started by entrepreneur Mark Coker after a ...

Over its first year of operations, the eBook publishing platform and online book store Smashwords has catered mainly to authors, publishing some 1,200 titles from about 600 authors. As is fitting on ...

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Self-publishing platform Smashwords has just unveiled its biggest website redesign since it launched in 2008. In a blog post, founder Mark Coker said: We made hundreds of changes large and small. We ...

Looking to offer indie authors access to a booming audiobook market, Smashwords, the self-publishing platform and e-book distributor, is teaming with Findaway Voices, an online production platform and ...

This week's episode of the Quick'n'Dirty podcast was "="" part="" deux"=""> for me and co-host Aaron Strout. It almost seems as if we've been apart more than together ...

In a deal that unites two of the largest independent distributors of self-published books, Draft2Digital has agreed to acquire Smashwords for an undisclosed price. The purchase is expected to be ...

Ebook distribution platform Smashwords, which celebrated its tenth anniversary earlier this year in May 2018, has officially passed 500,000 total released titles, offered from more than 100,000 ...

In the past year, open reading platform and forum Wattpad saw an exponential increase in user traffic, evidenced by the more than 41 billion minutes that its members spent reading online in 2013, more ...

Adult content has long been a big draw, and one of the most profitable, in the world of digital media, but a recent move by PayPal is a sign of how one part of that business may be facing some ...