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	<title>TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics &#187; Mark Coker</title>
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		<title>Will Apple&#8217;s January event usher in new e-self-publishing program?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumors have been flying about the Apple event announced for later this month. It seems pretty obvious that it’s about time for a new iPad to make the rounds, of course, but Good eReader thinks that Apple is going to announce a new self-publishing platform. “Sources close to the matter have told us that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smashwords publishes its 20,000th indie ebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿ Smashwords author Charlene Bays Rothenberger yesterday published the 20,000th book at Smashwords at 8:23pm Pacific time. Two months ago we reached 15,000 books and five months ago we hit 10,000. To put the growth in context, we published 140 books in 2008, our first year of operation. By the end of 2009, we reached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The seven secrets to ebook publishing failure</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-seven-secrets-to-ebook-publishing-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿On October 2 in New York, I&#8217;m giving a talk at the Self Publishing Expo Conference titled, &#8220;The Seven Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success.&#8221; While preparing the presentation, I started thinking about how it&#8217;s possible to succeed as an author yet still fail to achieve your full potential. Every author is the CEO of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Smashwords Style Guide and Meatgrinder Blades released</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿I released a new revision to the Smashwords Style Guide that makes it easier to produce, publish and distribute a great-looking multi-format ebook with Smashwords. In parallel, in the last 30 days we developed, tested and introduced new EPUB and MOBI Meatgrinder conversion blades that give authors and publishers more control than ever over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author David Robinson essay on Virtues of Indie Ebook Publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, Greg McQueen released a 100 Stories for Haiti Podcast focused on ebooks, offering an insightful and well-balanced look at the state of ebooks. He interviewed multiple authors and even yours truly to explore what ebooks mean to authors, readers and the future of publishing. For me, the highlight of Greg&#8217;s excellent podcast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are serialized ebooks a bad idea?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Dickens didn&#8217;t invent serialized novels, but he&#8217;s certainly one of the best known authors to use the serial approach. Whereas the traditional story has a beginning, a middle and an end, the serial novel is often characterized by the never-ending middle. The author starts the story, and then releases new installments over time. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smashwords ebooks to support live Tables of Contents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smashwords authors can now add enhanced navigation to their ebooks with linked, clickable ToCs. This is good news for our 4,992 authors (we should reach 5,000+ by tonight or tomorrow!) and their 10,943 books. The lack of live ToC support has been one of the biggest, most glaring holes at Smashwords ever since we launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-published books swamp traditionally published books</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/smashwords/self-published-books-swamp-traditionally-published-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Milliot over at Publisher&#8217;s Weekly reported today on new data out of R.R. Bowker that shows a huge spike in the number of self-published titles in 2009. Milliot reports: A staggering 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers and micro-niche publishers, according to statistics released this morning by R.R. Bowker. The number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smashwords publishes 10,000th ebook</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/smashwords-publishes-10000th-ebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Smashwords catalog of original indie ebooks surpassed 10,000 yesterday. With your help, I think we can hit 25,000 by the end of the year. And hey, if we fall short and hit 20,000, it&#8217;ll still blow a lot of people away, myself included. 10K is a huge milestone, not only for us as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebook market exploding, says new iDPF survey</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ebook-market-exploding-says-new-idpf-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ebook-market-exploding-says-new-idpf-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ebook market is growing faster as it grows larger. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) on Friday reported U.S. wholesale ebook sales for January, 2010 were $31.9 million, up 261 percent from the same month a year earlier. To put this in perspective, I created the chart at left. The chart compiles annual ebook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smashwords Book Marketing Guide Update &#8211; 5 sites promote your ebook</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/smashwords-book-marketing-guide-update-5-sites-promote-our-ebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I updated the Smashwords Book Marketing Guide this morning. If you&#8217;re not familiar with it, it&#8217;s a free ebook that offers over 27 easy-to-implement marketing ideas for authors. Even if you&#8217;re naturally introverted, as most of us authors are, you&#8217;ll benefit from this ebook. Best of all, all of the ideas can be implemented at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Buffalo Mailer publishes Music, Food, and Death at Smashwords</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/john-buffalo-mailer-publishes-music-food-and-death-at-smashwords-by-mark-coker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Buffalo Mailer, the author, journalist, actor and playwright son of Norman Mailer, has published a great ebook at Smashwords titled, Music, Food, and Death. The ebook explores post-Katrina New Orleans through the eyes of strippers. As part of the Read an Ebook Week promotion, you can download it now through Saturday March 13 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Poynter and Mark Coker to speak at SF Writers Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coker and Poynter will be on a panel entitled &#8220;The Ebook Revolution&#8221; on Saturday, February 13. It will be moderated by literary agent Ted Weinstein. Coker is founder of Smashwords and Poynter is author of Dan Poynter&#8217;s Self-Publishing Manual. You can find more details here.]]></description>
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		<title>The scam of private label articles: An e-book angle, alas</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-scam-of-private-label-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know for only $24.95 a month, you can subscribe to a service that gives you access to a database of thousands of articles you can turn into e-books? If you&#8217;re too lazy or too clueless to write a real book, now you slap your name on another person&#8217;s work and get rich in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Coker: E-books may be moving to the cloud</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/mark-coker-e-books-may-be-moving-to-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek has a two-page article talking with Mark Coker from Smashwords, about how e-books may be migrating to “the cloud”—that is, to be hosted on remote servers and accessed at need rather than stored on your computer. (Speak of the devil.) The article touches on some of the stories covered by TeleRead in the past—publishers [...]]]></description>
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