{"id":4898,"date":"2010-03-01T13:14:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:14:39","slug":"tools-of-change-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4898","title":{"rendered":"Tools of Change Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> directed us to\u00c2\u00a0this <strong><em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/strong> piece: <strong><a title=\"Tools of Change\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mark-coker\/exploring-the-future-of-b_b_478846.html\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;Exploring the Future of Book Publishing at Tools of Change Conference&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> by<strong> <a title=\"Platform for independent authors and publishers.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\" target=\"_self\">Smashwords<\/a><\/strong> founder <strong>Mark Coker<\/strong> where he offers commentary and personal highlights from the recent\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>Tools of Change<\/strong> book publishing conference. Coker has made headlines inking deals with publishing industry giants to raise <strong>Smashwords<\/strong> profile as the go-to\u00c2\u00a0platform for\u00c2\u00a0 launching independent authors and publishers. We&#8217;ve been keeping tabs on\u00c2\u00a0Smashwords, a definite player in the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>. Check out some background <strong><a title=\"Smashwords at eBook Rumors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3792\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Jorgen directed us to\u00c2\u00a0this Huffington Post piece: &#8220;Exploring the Future of Book Publishing at Tools of Change Conference&#8221; by Smashwords founder Mark Coker where he offers commentary and personal highlights from the recent\u00c2\u00a0 Tools of Change book publishing conference. Coker has made headlines inking deals with publishing industry giants to raise Smashwords profile &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4898\">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":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898"}],"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=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}