good e publishing sites?

[michaelas]

I am considering e publishing with Smashwords, among others, but am still researching. Anyone have experience or opinions on Smash or others?

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[Henri Bauholz]

I'm in the process of putting through my first published short story as an e-book. The free formatting guide available at Smashwords is excellent. Be sure to download the guide and use that to get you text cleaned up so the words will look right in all formats.

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[tirial]

I used it for an e-book giveaway. As long as you make sure that you follow the style guide the results are pretty good, but there are a few snags that came up which it didn't cover.

Some characters don't go through the conversion process e.g. I lost my en-dash character. Also, smart quotes and apostrophes appear OK on most formats but play havoc with .txt. If you don't want .txt it's not an issue, but if you do, make sure you've removed them all.

Overall though it's quick, fairly simple, and free. I don't know how good it would be for commercial publishing, so you'd need to ask someone else about royalties, copyright etc.

[Nightmelody]

I have one up on Smashwords but opted out of Amazon through smashwords and put up my own kindle book. I have it set for free(read online) or paid to use other formats. It's easy and has made a little money.

[PortableHal]

My partner and I are terribly tech-ignorant. Despite its excellent and free guidebook, Smashwords defeated us (primarily, I think, because we used an existing template with all kinds of secret flaws inside).

[Izz]

Smashwords is probably the best of the self e-pub sites. Their royalty package is right up there (if i sell something for 99c i get 56 of those cents), and if your book gets accepted into the premium catalog they'll supply you a free ISBN.