{"id":5289,"date":"2010-04-06T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2010-04-06T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:29:26","slug":"smashwords-ebook-titles-arrive-on-apple-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5289","title":{"rendered":"Smashwords eBook Titles Arrive on Apple iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is in for independent authors and publishers. <a title=\"Independent Authors and Publishers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Smashwords<\/strong>&#8216;<\/a> eBook titles have been shipped and can now be purchased through <strong>iPad<\/strong> at the <strong>Apple iBookstore<\/strong>. Read the release <strong><a title=\"Smashwords Indie Authors at the iBookstore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/press\/release\/19\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest distribution deal for the independent author and publisher platform that caps off a fantastic run where Smashwords founder <strong>Mark Coker<\/strong> inked similar deals with the online retailers <strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong>, <strong>Sony eBook Store<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0and <strong>Amazon<\/strong> and leading mobile eBook apps like <strong>Stanza<\/strong>, <strong>Kobo<\/strong>, <strong>aldiko<\/strong>, <strong>FBReader<\/strong> and <strong>Word-Player<\/strong> that support all mobile platforms including <strong>Android<\/strong>, <strong>BlackBerry<\/strong> and <strong>iPhone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Smashwords publishes a list of almost<strong> 10,000<\/strong> original eBooks from more than<strong> 4,000<\/strong> authors and <strong>150<\/strong> independent publishers.\u00c2\u00a0 With over <strong>1,000<\/strong> new eBooks published each month, Smashwords stands to be a major player in the eBook Revolution, especially when considering that a number of their\u00c2\u00a0authors are professionals previously published by large publishers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smashwords<\/strong> is the <strong>game changer<\/strong> in eBook Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is in for independent authors and publishers. Smashwords&#8216; eBook titles have been shipped and can now be purchased through iPad at the Apple iBookstore. Read the release here. This is the latest distribution deal for the independent author and publisher platform that caps off a fantastic run where Smashwords founder Mark Coker &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5289\">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":[11,4,5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289"}],"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=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5308,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions\/5308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}