Publish and Promote Your E-Book for Free!

Whether your budget is modest or you have no budget at all, unemployed or underemployed; you can still publish your own book. Maybe you’re thinking of self-publishing. Unless you choose to wait until later, there is nothing stopping you from publishing an e-book today.

In April 2009, we introduced our Out the Box Blog Talk Radio listeners to Mark Coker, founder of an exciting e-book publishing service called Smashwords.

Smashwords is an e-book self-publishing service that helps authors publish, promote and sell their own books, as multi-format ebooks.  Smashwords e-books are readable on any digital reading device like the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, iPod Touch, IRex Iliad, or other digital reading devices. If you do not own a digital reading device yet, Smashwords books can also be read online via their own online readers. Their e-book publishing and promoting services are free.  Your finished manuscript can be uploaded to Smashwords, and their system will convert it into most, if not all, e-book formats, ready for immediate sale online, at the price you decide on.  You retain all rights to your book, and receive 85 percent of the net sale proceeds.

Smashwords also provides a Style Guide that they encourage you to read before publishing—to get the best conversion results.  Find out how to publish your book using Smashwords e-book publishing services, and get access their Style Guide here. Or, we can complete all the steps for you:

• Setup Smashwords Account
• Format Ebook Using Smashwords Guidelines
• Upload Manuscript and Book Cover PDFs to Smashwords

Also, take a moment to checkout some of the author’s books already published on Smashwords website to find out if this type of service would work for you.

As always, if you plan to publish, have your manuscript professionally edited.  In doing so, your work will be taken seriously and your best work will be presented to readers.  Learn more about the different levels of professional book editing, and why editing should never be overlooked or excluded from the self-publishing process.

Abrah-Cove Publishing is an affiliate of Smashwords.

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