Reviews of Smashwords Style Guide

The instructions in this book are required to format your book for Smashwords. It's painful if you are not advanced-intermediate MS Word user. The good news is once you do this formatting to your book, it's good to go for SW, iBook and Barnes and Noble. One thing: It's 2016, why can't we just upload a PDF? It really should not be this complicated, should it? Sorry about whining (lol).

The guide is clear enough. The formatting is ludicrous. It was far easier to format my dissertation for publication, and that took several hours. For anyone who is not already tech savvy, be prepared for a lot of frustration.

Just a note for new author: Smashwords is primarily good for giving away free copies anyway. You won't sell one tenth as many as almost anywhere else.

I totally support Smashwords. The world needs this platform and I wish more people would get on here and support ebooks and literacy. This book is absolutely required, along with Mark Coker's other books, for anyone hoping to make it in the very hard world of indie authoring. This book has the secrets and the tips/tricks for getting your book onto SW, iBooks, and B&N. Thanks, Mark Coker and TEAM!!!

Thank you Mark Coker for everything you and your team does at Smashwords. Keep fighting the good fight to make eBooks free and inexpenve for everyone around the world. I love Smashwords!!!

This style guide manual is a great tool to me. wow!

Excellent book! Keeping this one to re-read various times.

Everything covered AFAIK including changing justification to Left for eBooks. One thing missing: instructions for hyphenation. Since eBbooks are read on different size screens, should anything be auto-hyphenated in a Word doc originally formatted for a print book?

Most of the things I already knew. The one thing I badly needed to know (how to format the damn footnotes in a way that pleases Meatgrinder) is "explained" in the least clear way possible.
Obviously, Meatgrinder didn't like how I formatted the footnotes. And I have no idea how to solve the thing, thank you very much.
It's been... It's been a long, tedious, "duh!"-ridden read. Not sure if it was worth the effort.

This made it so easy to format my eBook for Smashwords, iBooks, and Barnes & Noble.

Thanks for the excellent clear instructions, especially on how to set up the styles and use them to format the entire document. I could not have done this without you Mr Coker.