Mark Coker

Mark Coker

Mark Coker is the founder of Smashwords, an ebook publishing and distribution platform serving thousands of independent authors and publishers around the world. Smashwords has gained international attention for its simple but radical idea: Provide a free service that enables any author anywhere to publish their ebook in seconds, making it available for immediate sampling, sale and distribution to a worldwide audience via major online ebook retailers and mobile smartphone platforms. Mark is a contributing blogger to the Huffington Post's books section, where he blogs about ebooks and the future of publishing.
Category: Publishing
Web Sites:
www.SmashWords.com

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What is the future of publishing? Mark Coker joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the shift from traditional to digital publishing, and how this is affecting industry players - authors, publishers and consumers - and determining winners and losers.
You can see the future of book publishing today. Mark Coker joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how his company, SmashWords, is one of the paradigm shifters for the publishing industry, including helping authors.
How are e-books growing around the world? Mark Coker joins Jim Blasingame to talk about what he learned about how the world is taking to e-books during his recent multi-continent speaking tour.