title_body: Publishing blog posts as an ebook at Smashwords Is publishing an ebook through Smashwords allowed if the ebook consists of nothing more than blog posts you've originally written? For example, a collection of &quot;Best of&quot; posts with no extra material.
  Reading their Terms of Service, in the Author's Warranties section, some points which collecting and publishing a collection of still up and publicly accessible blog posts may run afoul of:
  
  9b. You further warrant that the Work contains no materials which:
  
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  contains advertisements for products or services, or is intended to act as an advertising or upselling vehicle for products or services
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  is an incomplete book for the purpose of promoting the purchase of the complete book elsewhere or on Smashwords.  Books priced at FREE are held to this same standard.
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  9c. You further warrant the book meets the following standards for originality:
  
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  your books do not and will not appear elsewhere on the Internet authored by people other than yourself or by pen names (pseudonyms) different from your pen name at Smashwords;
  
  9d. You further warrant the book represents a complete work:
  
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  the uploaded file is not a partial sample or sample chapter, or is not a collection of sample chapters, or not simply a catalog advertising other books or products
  the work is complete and self-contained, and does not try to upsell the user to purchase, or register for, access to information that should have been contained in the book
  the uploaded book represents a complete story with a beginning, middle and end.  Exception: Serials are allowed.  Each serial cover image should be different, even if the only difference is a notation on the cover image about the serial's position or episode number in the series.  To avoid customer confusion, we recommend it should be clearly identified as a serial in the book description and the serial episodes should be linked together using the Smashwords Series Manager tool.
  
  
  Given that a collection of blog posts are:
  
  only selected articles from a blog, thus incomplete of the total blog archives
  still available to read as you please
  in itself is some kind of advertising for the blog
  non-fiction and has no narrative
  
  would such an ebook be publishable on Smashwords?
upvoted_answer: I can't speak for Smashwords, and this isn't legal advice, but I will say that none of the terms that you quote above seem to prohibit what you are describing.  I'm actually not sure what parts concern you.
  
  They require a complete work; that doesn't mean you have to publish a complete copy of a blog's archives. They seem to be worried mostly about books that end with an upsell, like "Thanks for reading; to find out what happens to Joe and Susie, buy my other book for $99!"
  
  None of the terms that you quoted prohibit publishing a book of material that you wrote that is available elsewhere.
  
  If the purpose of the blog posts selected for inclusion is advertising for your site, then 9b above is a problem. But if the posts are substantive in their own right, 9b doesn't indicate to me that you can never publish anything if it might interest the reader in other stuff that you've written.
  
  As for nonfiction, the Smashwords homepage has an entire category of nonfiction works. They clearly allow nonfiction as well as fiction.
  
  If you are concerned about it, you can always just email them and ask. If you are really concerned about it, get a California lawyer to review the terms and give you their thoughts (the terms are subject to California law, under paragraph 15b).