Writer’s who are finding it hard to sell their novels to a publisher may be interested in the new Smashwords app available from the iBookstore from Apple. The simple app allows writers to sign into a deal with Apple that allows them to distribute their books free in e-book form in the Apple iBookstore.
Founder of Smashwords, Mark Coker, has already sent out notices to 4,000 authors in the network that details how to get their e-books ready for distribution in the Apple iBookstore.
The guideline when it comes to pricing e-books is that they all must end in $.99, but the option is there to also offer books for free. Apple also requires e-books to cost less than any printed versions of a book that may be out there floating around.
Smashwords currently has published more than 9,000 books by authors including some famous works by authors Mark Sullivan, Gary Wolfe, Anne Frasier, and John Buffalo Mailer. However, even non-famous authors may discover that the deal is useful for getting their creations out there in the digital world and into the hands of avid readers.
The main distribution audience of the e-books is the new Apple platform the iPad.
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