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Self-Published Authors Seeing the Wisdom of Higher Ebook Prices

May 8, 2013 | Jeremy Greenfield | 0

Last year at this time, the most popular price point for self-published authors using the Smashwords distribution platform was $0.99; this year it’s $2.99, according to analysis by Smashwords. This data dovetails what we’ve seen at Digital Book World through …

Smashwords CEO Mark Coker: Indie Authors Need to Become Great Publishers

May 8, 2012 | Jeremy Greenfield | 8

A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for an author to self-publish their own work and distribute it to half a dozen of the leading bookstores. Today, tens of thousands of people are doing it. How things have changed. One of the people responsible for this revolution in publishing is Mark Coker, the founder and CEO of Smashwords.

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