{"id":3792,"date":"2009-11-17T12:44:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:44:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:44:48","slug":"big-news-for-indie-authors-and-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3792","title":{"rendered":"BIG NEWS for INDIE AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Smashwords + Shorcovers = Revolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/ebooks\/shortcovers_signs_global_distribution_deal_with_smashwords_143168.asp\" target=\"_self\">Media Bistro&#8217;s Galleycat<\/a><\/strong> reports\u00c2\u00a0digital book service <strong><a title=\"Shorcovers\" href=\"http:\/\/shortcovers.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Shortcovers<\/a><\/strong> has formed a partnership with Indie Author and Publisher platform\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Smashwords\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\" target=\"_self\">Smashwords<\/a><\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0On <strong>Nov. 18<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Smashwords will start sharing titles from its growing <strong>5,000+<\/strong> stable of eBooks from Independent talent.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant move as Smashwords accesses Shortcovers&#8217; global infrastructure for reading and downloading eBooks across multiple devices (e.g. iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm Pre , Google Android and Sony Reader.)<\/p>\n<p>On top of similar deals with Sony eBook Store and Barnes and Noble, this coalition begins to challenge even Amazon&#8217;s distribution might. As it&#8217;s described, the eBook-only distribution deal allows Indie authors and publishers to sell directly, <em><strong>globally<\/strong><\/em>, without negotiating the sale\u00c2\u00a0of foreign printing rights.<\/p>\n<p>They call it &#8220;democratizing distribution.&#8221; I call it a win-win scenario for the eBook Revolution, <em>yah?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Bistro&#8217;s Galleycat reports\u00c2\u00a0digital book service Shortcovers has formed a partnership with Indie Author and Publisher platform\u00c2\u00a0Smashwords.\u00c2\u00a0On Nov. 18\u00c2\u00a0 Smashwords will start sharing titles from its growing 5,000+ stable of eBooks from Independent talent.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a significant move as Smashwords accesses Shortcovers&#8217; global infrastructure for reading and downloading eBooks across multiple devices (e.g. iPhone, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3792\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792"}],"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=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}