iPad Ushers in New Era in Publishing

2,000+ ebooks from Smashwords authors and publishers appeared on the iPad yesterday.

Very few people in the publishing industry understand the profound implications of this. It’s not just about the iPad – it’s about how any author, anywhere in the world, can go from a Microsoft Word document to worldwide ebook store distribution in a matter of seconds or days.

Welcome to the age of fully democratized, instant publishing where the bookstore is moving to a screen near you. Authors can now publish and distribute with unprecedented freedom.

Read the rest of this post, including a mention of Alex Greenwood’s ebook here:

Smashwords: Smashwords Ebooks – iPad Ebook Publishing Made Easy.