Review: Very helpful
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2013
I would give it five stars but people might get suspicious! Actually, it's an excellent book. If you're a writer you should be using Smashwords to publish your ebook; it was created by a writer (Mark Coker) to help himself and other writers. He continues to offer help and guidance through three free books (this is one of them) about how to best use Smashwords.In case you don't know what Smashwords is, it's a self-publishing platform where your book is generated into a format that any e-reader can use. Then it's placed into the search engines of the major ebook publishers. It's free; Smashwords takes a small percentage of your sales.There are some obvious points in here (well, as a writer and reader they were obvious to me)—make sure your book is copyedited or proofread by a professional; have a great cover and get a pro to do it to make it better. Then there were some tips about promoting your book. But I think Mark's best advice was for writers to be patient. Unlike traditional books that only stay in a bookstore for a brief time unless they get huge amounts of sales right away, your ebook is available at any time for someone to buy. And you never know when it might take off.