Not only can Wordclay help you publish in print, they also offer an affordable ebook formatting service. If you don't have the time, patience or skills to format your manuscript per the guidelines in the The Smashwords Style Guide, consider hiring the formatting professionals at Wordclay to do it for you.
Why Publish in Print?
At Smashwords, we love ebooks and know they have a bright future. However, we also encourage our authors to publish in print as well. Why? Because ebooks today only account for about 2% of all book industry sales. This means from an industry-wide perspective, for every ebook sold, customers purchase approximately 50 more print books. To satisfy all your potential readers, it's important to make your book available both in digital form and print form.
Smashwords Recommends Wordclay
Smashwords has partnered with Wordclay, which will allow you to publish your book in print. Wordclay is the do-it-yourself self-publishing division of Author Solutions, one of the world's largest and most respected self publishing companies.
Smashwords has an affiliate relationship with Wordclay. This means if you decide to publish in print via Wordclay, or purchase any of their services, Smashwords will receive a small commission.
Formatting and Support
As a print publisher, Wordclay has different formatting requirements than Smashwords. Smashwords cannot provide customer service to you related to formatting or other issues related to print publishing. Please direct your print publishing questions to Wordclay.
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To take advantage of Wordclay's services, you will be asked to register separately for Wordclay, a trusted Smashwords partner (registration is free).