Smashwords Style Guide    by Mark Coker
Smashwords Guides series, no. 1
Price: Free! 24670 words. Published on May 5, 2008. .
The Smashwords Style Guide has helped thousands of authors produce and publish high-quality ebooks. This free guide offers simple step-by-step instructions to create, format and publish an ebook. It's required reading for any author who wants to distribute their book via Smashwords to major ebook retailers such as the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and Diesel. Minor Rev: June 2012

Smashwords Book Marketing Guide    by Mark Coker
Smashwords Guides series, no. 2
Price: Free! 13980 words. Published on December 22, 2008. .
This free book marketing primer provides authors easy-to-implement advice on how to market their books at Smashwords and elsewhere. It starts with an overview of how Smashwords helps promote your book, and then provides 39 simple do-it-yourself marketing tips. The book is useful to all authors, even those who don't yet publish on Smashwords. Updated May 22, 2013.

Are You Still Submitting Your Work to a Traditional Publisher?    by Edward C. Patterson
Price: $0.99 USD. 34460 words. Published on December 24, 2008. .
With the new and exciting world of Kindles and Print-on-Demand (POD), Independent Publishing is becoming an enticing choice and a viable alternative to traditional publishing. Are you unsure of how to go about it? Do you crave to know the best options? What are the pitfalls? Includes three other stimulating articles on novel writing and revision.

Flash Fiction 40 Anthology - July 2009    by Flash Fiction 40
Price: Free! 33600 words. Published by Mark Coker on July 20, 2009. .
In May 2009, Editor Unleashed and Smashwords co-sponsored The Flash Fiction 40 Contest. Writers submitted stories of 1,000 words or fewer on the Editor Unleashed forum. Maria Schneider, with the community's input, selected the winners. More than 280 writers took up the challenge and posted a story. Here, for your reading pleasure, are the top 40 stories.

Out Standing in the Field (The Indie Author's Two-Step Guide to Publishing eBooks)    by Kindle Joe for FREE PRESS
Price: $1.69 USD. 6370 words. Published by Fifth Column Press  on September 3, 2009. .
There's no time like right now to publish your e-book on Amazon or elsewhere and start selling it globally. Heard it's a hassle to digitally publish your manuscripts? It can be--but our two-step publishing shortcut is so easy, we published it in the Kindle Store using only Windows-95 and a dial-up internet connection! (That's right, Windows-95 and dial-up...so what are you waiting for?)

How to Get Your Book Published Free in Minutes and Marketed Worldwide in Days    by Gordon Burgett
Price: $9.99 USD. 44750 words. Published by Gordon Burgett on April 7, 2010. .
Only now can a writer get his or her book published free in minutes and have it marketed worldwide in days. Gordon Burgett now offers a how-to, step-by-step guide that walks beginners and veterans through the process: from writing to submitting to marketing. It can be a novel, cookbook, nonfiction, kids' book, memoir, or a dozen other kinds. In fact, this book is a perfect example!

So, You Want to Self-Publish    by Alessia Brio
Price: $0.99 USD. 9710 words. Published by Purple Prosaic on April 12, 2010. .
In the rapidly changing environment of digital publishing, many authors are asking themselves whether they truly need the services of a traditional publisher. Is it really necessary to have a large chunk of their sales revenue withheld by a distributor and a publisher? This book will provide valuable lessons learned regarding one author's journey through the waters of self-epublishing.

Once Upon a Summer    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 4600 words. Published on June 8, 2010. .
Sissy, 6, and Jim, 8, have been sent to their father, the community drunk, for the summer, hoping to find food and a kind word from the man they barely know. Always hungry, obviously unwanted, Sissy repeats "Thank the Lord" at every meal, which their grandmother, aunt and uncle find obnoxious. When their father finally speaks to Sissy and Jim it is in the form of a strange goodbye.

Frazzled    by Peter Johansen
Price: $2.95 USD. 26160 words. Published on August 23, 2010. .
GAP analysis methods endeavor toward developing visionary solutions to complex problems by bifurcating or simplifying the problem into measurable steps. The combined thesis ‘Economic Perils of the Middle-Aged American Worker’ and ‘The Forgotten Graveyard Worker’ attempts toward accomplishing solutions toward a complex problem.