{"id":5234,"date":"2010-03-31T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:54:49","slug":"smashwords-taking-a-bite-of-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5234","title":{"rendered":"Smashwords taking a bite of Apple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a rumor going around out there that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\">Smashwords<\/a><\/strong> has inked a deal with <strong>Apple<\/strong> to distribute its growing\u00c2\u00a0list of titles by independent authors and publishers at the<strong> iBookStore<\/strong>. Now we&#8217;ve got <strong><a title=\"Smashwords authors at Apple iBookStore\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2010\/03\/self-published-authors-to-get-in-ibookstore-via-smashwords.ars\" target=\"_self\">ars technica<\/a><\/strong> talking about a letter\u00c2\u00a0going out to participating authors to confirm it. Read about the letter <strong><a title=\"Smashwords and Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2010\/03\/self-published-authors-to-get-in-ibookstore-via-smashwords.ars\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve talked about Smashwords before <strong><a title=\"Smashwords, B&amp;N, Kobo (Shortcovers)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3792\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Smashwords and Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3867\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> when founder <strong>Mark Coker<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0finalized similar rapid fire deals with <strong>Sony eBook Store<\/strong>,<strong>\u00c2\u00a0Barnes and\u00c2\u00a0Noble<\/strong>, <strong>Kobo Books<\/strong> (formerly <strong>Shortcovers<\/strong>) and <strong>Amazon.com<\/strong>. Now <strong>Apple iPad<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kudos, Mr. Coker!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When one considers that within\u00c2\u00a0the ranks of independent authors you will find the next Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer and Michael Crichton, then readers are about to experience a renaissance of talent and selection. The eBook Revolution continues to grow, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a rumor going around out there that Smashwords has inked a deal with Apple to distribute its growing\u00c2\u00a0list of titles by independent authors and publishers at the iBookStore. Now we&#8217;ve got ars technica talking about a letter\u00c2\u00a0going out to participating authors to confirm it. Read about the letter here.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ve talked about Smashwords before &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5234\">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":[7,4,5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234"}],"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=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}