{"id":7478,"date":"2010-12-14T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2010-12-14T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:47:18","slug":"smashwords-indie-ebook-author-makes-sales-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7478","title":{"rendered":"Smashwords Indie eBook Author Makes Sales Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting post and interview over at <a title=\"Indie Author makes big bucks!\" href=\"http:\/\/stuartaken.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/smashwords-author-brian-s-pratt-to-earn.html?zx=5cd4b1b01ea5c6d6\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Stuart Aken&#8217;s blog<\/strong><\/a>, about the recent success of an indie author. We mentioned <a title=\"Indie authors at Smashwords\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Smashwords<\/strong><\/a> before, the eBook publishing platform for independent authors and small publishers that was way ahead of its time.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here we&#8217;ve got Smashword&#8217;s founder <strong>Mark Coker<\/strong> interviewing indie (&amp; Smashwords) author, <a title=\"The World of Brian S. Pratt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.briansprattbooks.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Brian S. Pratt<\/strong><\/a> whose eBook titles are predicted to net him<strong> $100,000<\/strong> in sales in <strong>2011<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This story highlights the best part of the democratizing of publishing via the eBook Revolution. Authors are allowed to live or die by a readership they&#8217;re able to court personally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting post and interview over at Stuart Aken&#8217;s blog, about the recent success of an indie author. We mentioned Smashwords before, the eBook publishing platform for independent authors and small publishers that was way ahead of its time. Well, here we&#8217;ve got Smashword&#8217;s founder Mark Coker interviewing indie (&amp; Smashwords) author, Brian S. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=7478\">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":[7,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478"}],"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=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}