smashwords : publish your own ebook or ereader
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Donna EyestoneFebruary 16 2011
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Smashwords: Publish your own eBook or eReader
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Donna Eyestone
Smashwords: Publish your own eBook or eReader
Textbooks
The Good The Bad
Why
Textbooks are heavy costly slow to update without clickable links not searchable wasting paper
Digital Media Skills Reader
• Started as online course (odd).• Added on-campus sections.• Used my online content as Reader
(done through Bookstore).• Minimum printed cost for Reader $20
Updates were quite hard!
Digital Media Skills Reader
Looking for an easy way to create an eBook that didn’t require the traditional publisher/editor/writer/distributor relationship.
Smashwords
http://www.smashwords.com/
Smashwords
I tried Smashwords because
• No cost to try it.• You could give away or sell the eBooks.• They want a MS Word document and
they do all the conversion!• It could be done all online, without talking
to anyone.
Smashwords
Let’s look first at Smashwords
Then at my Word Document
And then at eBook buying/selling/reading
Smashwords
Does it solve our problems with textbooks?
Does it create some additional challenges?
Donna Eyestonedeyestone@mac.com
http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/deyestone
Q&A
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Smashwords: Publish your own eBook or eReader
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