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

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