{"id":21570,"date":"2022-02-08T15:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=21570"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:23:32","slug":"draft2digital-acquiring-smashwords-to-form-biggest-us-indie-publishing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=21570","title":{"rendered":"Draft2Digital Acquiring Smashwords to Form Biggest US Indie Publishing Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.draft2digital.com\/blog\/draft2digital-has-acquired-smashwords\/\"><strong>Draft2Digital<\/strong><\/a> is acquiring <strong>Smashwords<\/strong> with a deal that is set to close <strong>on the first of March<\/strong>. They&#8217;re <strong>talking growth, not replacement<\/strong>, with the two indie-publishing platforms combining their catalogs, technology, and distribution channels to form a super-sized presence for the global eBook marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft2Digital is acquiring Smashwords with a deal that is set to close on the first of March. They&#8217;re talking growth, not replacement, with the two indie-publishing platforms combining their catalogs, technology, and distribution channels to form a super-sized presence for the global eBook marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,11,4,5,8,6,25,15,14,16,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21573,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570\/revisions\/21573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}