Smashwords End of Year Sale

[library addict]

FIRST ANNUAL SMASHWORDS END OF YEAR SALE STARTS DECEMBER 25

Mark your calendar!

Starting December 25 and running through January 1, over 30,000 ebooks at Smashwords will offer deep discounts of 25%-off, 50%-off, 75%-off and 100%-off (free!).

These special prices will be exclusive to Smashwords for eight days only.

This will be our first annual Smashwords End of Year Sale, following in the tradition of our other big sales such as Read an Ebook Week in March, and our Summer/Winter Sale in July.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by library addict

FIRST ANNUAL SMASHWORDS END OF YEAR SALE STARTS DECEMBER 25

Mark your calendar!

Starting December 25 and running through January 1, over 30,000 ebooks at Smashwords will offer deep discounts of 25%-off, 50%-off, 75%-off and 100%-off (free!).

These special prices will be exclusive to Smashwords for eight days only.

This will be our first annual Smashwords End of Year Sale, following in the tradition of our other big sales such as Read an Ebook Week in March, and our Summer/Winter Sale in July.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/1

Are there any real good books on Smashwords at all? If so, why haven't they been published by a traditional (either the dead-tree ones or the digital ones) publisher?

[cromag]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/1

Are there any real good books on Smashwords at all? If so, why haven't they been published by a traditional (either the dead-tree ones or the digital ones) publisher?

I like quite a few Indy authors who publish on Smashwords. There are also a lot of established authors who have regained control of their backlist, small publishers looking for convenience, etc. Reasonably well known authors who can be found at Smashwords include Kevin J. Anderson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, etc.



Interzone magazine is participating in the sale (75% off regular price):

https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=interzone



The Lara McClintoch Archaeological Mysteries by Lyn Hamilton are all free during the sale (originally published by Berkley Prime Crime):

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/343



It's worth a look, IMHO.

[maddz]

I’ve picked up quite a few backlist titles: Melissa Scott, Elizabeth Scarborough, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Bill Pronzini, Moyra Caldecott all spring to mind. The only problem is the appallingly bad search interface...

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Are there any real good books on Smashwords at all? If so, why haven't they been published by a traditional (either the dead-tree ones or the digital ones) publisher?

There are some authors published by traditional publishers with books in the Smashwords store, the ones I know of don't seem to be involved in this Xmas sale unfortunately, but anyone who reads SF would have heard of some of these authors:

Gregory Benford
Ben Bova
David Brin:
Greg Egan
Larry Niven
Charles Sheffield
Walter Jon Williams

Greg Egan's books for example: most are published by Hachette in the UK, but there are some self-published US editions in the Smashwords store.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Are there any real good books on Smashwords at all? If so, why haven't they been published by a traditional (either the dead-tree ones or the digital ones) publisher?

Real good books on Smashwords, just to name a few:

Promises to keep series by Shayne Parkinson, the first book, Sentence of Marriage, is free.

The Penal Colony, The Drowning, Dismemberment by Richard Herley

The Nell Sweeney Mysteries by P.B. Ryan, the first book,
Still life with Murder is free.

Boomerang by Alan Hutchenson

[sufue]

If you haven't checked out the previous Smashwords sales, it's probably worth taking a look at the threads for the two previous sales this year (links below). The authors who choose to put their works on sale each time are usually pretty much the same, and usually mostly the same titles too, so I've found seriously diminishing returns for scouring through the books on sale after you've done it a couple of times. (And totally agree on the horrible search engine...)

But if you haven't checked out the Smashwords sales before, luckily if you look at the last couple of threads, folks will have largely done the scouring through for you.

July 2017 sale thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=288225

March 2017 sale thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=284228

There are threads for the even older Smashwords sales too, but that diminishing returns thing... If you really want them, you can search for and find the older threads too...

[GtrsRGr8]

Thanks to all of you for the info about Smashwords. The utilitization, by authors, of Smashwords for their backlist titles was especially intriguing . . . .

I looked through the selection at Smashwords during a sale of theirs about 5 years ago, and was very disappointed in their selection of what I read--non-fiction. I don't remember going to Smashwords' website since.

[maddz]

In all honesty, out of the dozen or so authors I’ve favourited on Smashwords, only one has had a new title out this year. I’ll probably check it out once more before the end of the sale, but I doubt I shall make any purchase.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by maddz

In all honesty, out of the dozen or so authors I’ve favourited on Smashwords, only one has had a new title out this year. I’ll probably check it out once more before the end of the sale, but I doubt I shall make any purchase.

Smashwords send me an email each time a new Kristine Kathryn Rusch arrives in their store.

Smashwords Alerts

Note that some books are not released through Smashwords

[Avice]

Sherwood Smith has most of her SFF backlist on Smashwords 50% off.