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Mark Coker

Five Top Trends Shaping The Future of Publishing

October 4, 2012 by Margaret Duarte

Five Top Trends Shaping The Future of Publishing

I recently attended a “sit-up-and-take-notice” workshop about how to produce, distribute and sell your work in the evolving e-world given by Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords. His opener jolted my writer self like a sip of vanilla latte on a cold, groggy morning.  “There’s never been a better time to be an author.” Okaaaay, I thought, as though he had just told […]

Filed Under: Book Talk, For Writers, Publishing and Marketing Tagged With: Ebook publishing., Indie Publishing, Mark Coker, self-publishing, Smashwords, Top trends shaping publishing

Mark Coker/Negative Virality/This Book Sucks!

September 30, 2012 by Margaret Duarte

Mark Coker/Negative Virality/This Book Sucks!

I attended an E-book publishing workshop given by Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords. In it, he spoke of Negative Virality. According to the online Oxford Dictionary, virality means the tendency of an image, video, or piece of information to be circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another; the quality or […]

Filed Under: For Writers, Publishing and Marketing Tagged With: Ebook publishing., Mark Coker, Smashwords

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