I was really impressed with the information here and I am sold on publishing with smashwords. I worked very hard on my book and now that it's ready for submission to a publisher I hunted all over and I really feel like smashwords is the only distributor that has their author's best interest in mind. It's very apparent that Mr. Coker cares about his customers and more importantly he respects the author, the writing process and he is an advocate for the future of ebooks.
I can't wait to get started with smashwords, but this book taught me that you can't just upload it right away. You have to do your homework, some promotional work and more. I also read the other 2 books on style guidelines and marketing by Mark Coker and those were very helpful too. Frankly when I looked at Amazon submissions I was a little intimidated. I don't feel like that with smashwords. I also enjoyed Mark's blog which has even more great information if that's possible. Thanks for such a great book Mark and I can't wait to work with smashwords to get my new indie book out there.
(review of free book)