CANCELLED: At the Richmond Beach Library: Ten Trends Impacting the Future of Publishing

CANCELLED: The presenter is unable to come to Seattle at this time.

Free workshop: Ten Trends Impacting the Future of Publishing - Monday, November 3, 4pm at the Richmond Beach Library, 19601 21st Ave NW, Shoreline, WA 98177, presented by Jim Azevedo, Marketing Director, Smashwords.

The simultaneous rise of eBooks, self-publishing and democratized access to retailers will forever transform the publishing landscape. Discover the 10 publishing industry trends that will most impact the future for book authors. Learn how the power center in the book publishing industry is shifting from publishers to writers, as self-published authors realize they already have access to the tools to out-sell and out-compete the big publishers.

Smashwords is the largest distributor of self-published eBooks, serving over 97,000 independent authors, publishers and literary agents. Since 2008, Smashwords has distributed more than 324,000 titles to retailers such as Apple iBooks, Barnes / Noble, Kobo and Flipkart, as well as to subscription services Oyster and Scribd, and also to libraries via its partnerships with OverDrive and Baker / Taylor.