Mark Coker founded Smashwords in 2008 to make it fast, free and easy for any writer, anywhere in the world, to self-publish an ebook. Today, Smashwords has grown to become the world’s largest distributor of self-published ebooks, representing more than 150,000 authors and independent presses from around the world who collectively have released over 500,000 titles with Smashwords. Mark is a contributing columnist for Publishers Weekly and the host of the popular SMART AUTHOR podcast available on Apple Podcasts and anywhere else fine podcasts are found.

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