Kris mentions this in her wonderful article this morning, but I wanted to give you a link because of the chart in this article on the second page. It’s a stunner and a great article and interview with Mark. Balanced in many ways, which surprised me.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0625/entrepreneurs-mark-coker-smashwords-book-value.html
Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith published traditionally more than one hundred popular novels and well over two hundred short stories. His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest and the thriller The Hunted as D.W. Smith. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he co-wrote The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and ghosts for a number of top bestselling writers.
Dean wrote books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and wrote scripts for Hollywood. One movie actually saw film.
Dean also worked as an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He now plays a role as an executive editor for Fiction River.
WMG Publishing Inc. is now my major publisher of all my coming novels, collections, and short stories.
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Great article. I can’t wait to see the new vendors he gets on board!
I’m also interested in the new vendors, but I’m also wondering how the changes with Kobo will affect Smashwords.
My guess is that most people (myself included) will stay on with smashwords, but opt out of the kobo option and go straight to kobo. The negative effect will be balanced when they bring on the new vendors.
We’re waiting and seeing the options and the bugs in the new system, which there will be many of both. I doubt we will spend the time to move the 240 titles we already have going to Kobo through Smashwords, just as we never moved the 80 some we have on Smashwords going to B&N. But if the new system is mostly bug free and doesn’t take much extra to do, we might go there with future books. Jury is out. But we will still use Smashwords. Even though the payment is very, very slow.
Yeah, I’m definitely planning to wait a while for them to identify and fix the bugs. And since I’m pretty smalltime, having only five books (six by july) in my monstrous inventory of work, *grin* it’ll be easy for me to move them over.
Wow, that article on Coker is really interesting, and it really paints him in an entrepreneurial light. He found a need and filled it, and he’s continuing to work on improving it.