Smashwords reviews

I only had my books available on Amazon for a very long time. I kept reading (here) that it was stupid to have your books available on Amazon alone.... so when I hired a formatter and her price for formatting books for B&N and Smashwords was a small add-on to the price of formatting for Amazon, I figured I'd give it a shot.

My goal is to have the income from Smashwords pay for the editing and formatting of my book. The income from B&N to pay my taxes. The income from Amazon is profit. So far, so good.

As far as having my books sold in 'private bookstores' -- all other things being equal -- income is income. If I make two cents -- it is two cents I wouldn't have made otherwise and if you add enough pennies together you can pay for a trip to Ireland (been there, done that) 

Sheila

Anything selling on Smashwords itself gets reported right away of course, but affiliate sales often take weeks or even months to get reported, and even longer to actually get paid. I've been submitting books there since October of last year, and I have yet to receive a dime in royalties.